The Whole Staggering Mystery is a memoir of fathers lost and found, and of children rebuilding bridges burned by their own parents.
INTERVIEW: Sylvia Brownrigg, Author of The Whole Staggering Mystery
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INTERVIEW: Kyo Maclear author of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
Kyo Maclear is the only child of a Japanese mother and British Canadian father. Or that’s what she understood for her first 49 years.
INTERVIEW: Ona Gritz, Author of Everywhere I Look: A Memoir
I read Everywhere I Look in a single sitting, and I hadn’t done that in years. It is both detective story and memoir and utterly entrancing.
INTERVIEW: Mimi Zieman, Author of Tap Dancing on Everest : A Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure
One of the metaphors I use…is thinking about my path to Everest as a dashed line on a hiking trail map.
INTERVIEW: Clancy Martin, Author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of a Suicidal Mind
If the line of work you’ve chosen involves emotional sensitivity, you have to be very careful with yourself.
INTERVIEW: Meg Kissinger, Author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
No doubt I was drawn to writing about mental illness because of my family circumstances.
INTERVIEW: Nicole Chung, Author of A Living Remedy
For there to be love in a story, there also has to be some amount of levity and joy and humor.
INTERVIEW: Morgan Baker, Author of Emptying the Nest: Getting Better at Goodbyes
Finding your voice comes with self-confidence and experience. I don’t think this is what I sounded like a long time ago.
INTERVIEW: Candace Cahill, Author of GOODBYE AGAIN
Goodbye Again, a memoir by Candace Cahill, is a welcome addition to the canon of adoption stories.
INTERVIEW: Mary Alice Hostetter, Author of Plain: A Memoir of a Mennonite Girlhood
We speak with Mary Alice Hostetter about Plain, her memoir of finding her authentic self amid a rigid upbringing in a Mennonite farm family.
