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Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react? Revisiting our pasts and exploring our experiences, we often reveal more of our nearest and dearest than they might prefer. This volume navigates the emotional and literary minefields that any writer of family stories or secrets must travel when depicting private lives for public consumption. Essays by twenty-five memoirists, including Faith Adiele, Alison Bechdel, Jill Christman, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Robin Hemley, Dinty W. Moore, Bich Minh Nguyen, and Mimi Schwartz, explore the fraught territory of family history told from one perspective, which, from another angle in the family drama, might appear quite different indeed. In her introduction to this book, Joy Castro, herself a memoirist, explores the ethical dilemmas of writing about family and offers practical strategies for this tricky but necessary subject. A sustained and eminently readable lesson in the craft of memoir, Family Trouble serves as a practical guide for writers to find their own version of the truth while still respecting family boundaries.

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Book category Books in English Language Language: reference & general Creative writing & creative writing guides

• Full title: Family Trouble
• Author: Joy Castro
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9780803246928
• ISBN: 0803246927
• ID: 02405916
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 362 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2013

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