From Hiroshima In The Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto – A memoir outlining her time in Japan studying and interviewing the hibakusha, the survivors of the atom bombing of Hiroshima. Rizzuto went to Japan to do research for a novel and ended up writing a memoir that not only explores memory, but also guilt, responsibility, and self-realization. In looking at the results of the bombing, Rizzuto also looks at how we define ourselves.
I can tell the story but it won’t be true.
It won’t be the facts as they happened exactly, each day, each footstep, each breath. Time elides, events shift; sometimes we shift them on purpose and forget that we did. Memory is just how we choose to remember.
We choose. (pg. 11)
I will come to believe, months from now, that life is a narrative. That who we are, what roles we choose – that there are deliberate characters we create to explain what we did – find a way to face tomorrow. That memory is not history. That we rewrite ourselves with every heartbeat. At this moment, though, my life is still a given. It does not – despite the contradiction of reality – change. My life is what surrounds me; I subsist on it so entirely that I can’t begin to see it. (pg. 12)
Reflections from the Hinterland 
This one sounds wonderful. I am adding it to my list.