Crisis Memoir

Post #44 – Women’s Memoirs, Book Raves – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett

Book reviews on Women’s Memoirs focus primarily on aspects of a memoir that a reader might use to improve her own writing. Jill Bolte Taylor’s memoir, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey offers more than most to the memoirist. Is it the story? [neuroanatomist studies her own stroke] Is it the writing? [“Drops of water spattering on my face instantly shift me into the beauty and innocence of my right mind as I feel enveloped by a deep sense of purification.”] Is it the theme? [crisis] The message? [recovery and personal growth from the crisis] [click to continue…]

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