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Informationen zum Autor Joy Castro is a professor of both English and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of several books including Island of Bones (winner of an International Latino Book Award in nonfiction), The Truth Book, and How Winter Began: Stories. Klappentext 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 González, 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. Zusammenfassung Serves as a practical guide for writers to find their own version of the truth while still respecting family boundaries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Mapping Hope Joy CastroPart 1. Drawing LinesChewing Band-Aids: One Memoirist's Take on the Telling of Family Secrets Jill ChristmanSally Could Delete Whatever She Wanted Paul AustinCase by Case: When It Comes to Family You Still Have to Talk To Mimi SchwartzAt Its Center Paul LisickyThe Day I Cried at Starbucks Ruth BeharMemory Lessons Rigoberto GonzálezThe Part I Can't Tell You Ariel GorePart 2. The Right to SpeakWhat the Little Old Ladies Feel: How I Told My Mother about My Memoir Alison BechdelTruths We Could Live With Robin HemleyWriting the Black Family Home Faith AdieleThe Deeper End of the Quarry: Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Family Dilemma Dinty W. MooreMama's Voices Susan OldingLiving in Someone Else's Closet Susan ItoPart 3. Filling the SilenceThe True Story Karen Salyer McElmurrayI Might Be Famous Ralph James SavareseA Spell against Sorrow: Writing My Father In Judith Ortiz CoferThings We Don't Talk About Aaron Raz LinkYou Can't Burn Everything Allison Hedge CokeDone with Grief: The Memoirist's Illusion Sandra ScofieldPart 4. Conversations of HopeThe Seed Book Stephanie Elizondo GriestCalling Back Lorraine M. LópezLike Rain on Dust Richard HoffmanThe Bad Asian Daughter Bich Minh NguyenYour Mother Should Know Sue William SilvermanWriting about Family Heather SellersGratitudeSource AcknowledgmentsContributors...
