Family trouble : memoirists on the hazards and rewards of revealing family

Castro, Joy, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 0803246927
ISBN: 9780803246928
Physical Description: 224 pages ; 23 cm
print
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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