Benchmark for genre of memoir

“But we did not feel as if anything we said was a lie. We both believed that the real lie was told by our present unworthy circumstances.”

The “truth” looms large in Tobias Wolff’s memoir A Boy’s Life. He tells us, for example, how he hijacked the school application process by creating fake transcripts and letters of recommendations when he applied to schools out East. He describes two types of truth – things he knew were true, … Read More

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“But we did not feel as if anything we said was a lie. We both believed that the real lie was told by our present unworthy circumstances.”

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