I’ve allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own story to tell. Also my mother thinks that a dog I describe as ugly was actually quite handsome. “I have been corrected on some points, mostly of chronology. Here is what we know about writing a memoir:įirstly, it’s a true story, derived from the memory of the author (bearing in mind that memory can be faulty).Īs Tobias Wolff says in This Boy’s Life (taken from Writing Life Stories): Essentially it is an examination of the zigzag nature of how our mind works.” Natalie Goldberg, the author of Old Friend from Far Away, described it as “the study of memory, structured on the meandering way we remember.
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