Writing Through Ancestral Trauma
Memoir writing can be myopic. We focus on specific relationships and events and the meaning we derive from them. Memoirs like Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Mary Kerr’s The Liars’ Club, and Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes are modern classics partly because of their tightly woven storytelling. However, we’re missing so much by focusing on a …