Jan 18, 2023
Today Lisa-Jo talks about the complexity of writing memoir when the story centers around the people who we love. We find it remarkable, how our parents resurface in us, the lives we live, and the ways we are. Finally, we work through six of Lisa-Jo's favorite memoirs and what these writers have done so well in the writing of their beginnings.
The five:
Sean Dietrich's Will the Circle Be
Unbroken
Michelle Zauner's Crying in H-Mart
Ann
Voskamp's Waymaker
Tony Woodleaf's Somewhere More
Holy
Jessica Willis Fisher's
Unspeakable
Tara Westover's Educated