Family trouble memoirists on the hazards and rewards of revealing family /
edited and with an introduction by Joy Castro.
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : mapping hope / Chewing band-aids : one memoirist's take on the telling of family secrets / Sally could delete whatever she wanted / Case by case : when it comes to family you still have to talk to / At its center / The day I cried at Starbucks / Memory lessons / The part I can't tell you / What the little old ladies feel : how I told my mother about my memoir / Truths we could live with / Writing the black family home / The deeper end of the quarry : fiction, nonfiction, and the family dilemma / Mama's voices / Living in someone else's closet / The true story / I might be famous / A spell against sorrow : writing my father in / Things we don't talk about / You can't burn everything / Done with grief : the memoirist's illusion / The seed book / Calling back / Like rain on dust / The bad Asian daughter / Your mother should know / Writing about family / Joy Castro -- Jill Christman -- Paul Austin -- Mimi Schwartz -- Paul Lisicky -- Ruth Behar -- Rigoberto González -- Ariel Gore -- Alison Bechdel -- Robin Hemley -- Faith Adiele -- Dinty W. Moore -- Susan Olding -- Susan Ito -- Karen Salyer McElmurray -- Ralph James Savarese -- Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Aaron Raz Link -- Allison Hedge Coke -- Sandra Scofield -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Lorraine M. López -- Richard Hoffman -- Bich Minh Nguyen -- Sue William Silverman -- Heather Sellers.
9781461937234 9780803248717
Autobiography--Authorship--Anecdotes. Biographers--United States--Anecdotes. Family secrets--Anecdotes.