A Review of “Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir” in 100 Words by Catherine Stover
Memoirists have to strike a difficult balance while attempting to meet two goals. Their first goal is to tell us about something that happened in their past by taking us back to the way life was then. Their second goal is to reflect on what they have learned since then. They might conclude, for example, that they wish that they could have known then what they know now. Readers see how perspectives can change over time. The authors of this book believe that this dance between the past and the present is what makes memoirs unique – and, potentially, transformative.
Citation:
Miller, Lynn and Lisa Lenard-Cook. Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir. University of Wisconsin Press, 2013, p. 7.