Whether it’s our relationships to pop culture, religion, or race (or sometimes all three), the world we grow in impacts how we understand ourselves. These three memoirs examine the social environments we grow up in, how they shape our sense of belonging, and how through these routes of reflection we can discover ourselves.

Readers: Jen Sookfong Lee, SUPERFAN: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart (Penguin Random House Canada) | Tara MacLean, Song of the Sparrow: A Memoir (HarperCollins) | Harrison Mooney, Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery (HarperCollins)