true-life novel

Post #45 – Women’s Memoirs, Book Raves – Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett

Reviewed by Lanie Tankard

Consider this approach to writing about your grandmother

Would you like to paint a memoir portrait of a colorful family character — but you’re working with mostly secondhand stories on your palette? One technique for presenting someone several generations before you might be the “true-life novel” that Jeannette Walls employs in her most recent book, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel. [click to continue…]

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