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Post #86 – Women’s Memoirs, Book & Video Raves – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler

Memoir Writers Can Learn Much from Fiction

For obvious reasons, Women’s Memoirs publishes book reviews of memoirs. However, occasionally a film or a book is so compelling that it seems as if it were a memoir. Recently, our frequent reviewer, Lanie Tankard, came to us with a proposal. She had just finished Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel and felt the powerful story would be of considerable interest to memoir writers. We agreed. As I write this introduction, the book is #48 on Amazon.

Caleb’s Crossing: A Novel

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Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

Caleb’s Crossing, a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks, could easily be subtitled “Bethia’s Memoir.” For the novel is as much the story of real-life Caleb Cheeshahteaumauk, first Native American to graduate from Harvard College in 1665, as it is the tale of fictionalized Bethia Mayfield, a young female Puritan longing for knowledge in a world shuttered to women. Cultures, races, and genders all collide here. [click to continue…]

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