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The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity,Used
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Baring the Truth in Your MemoirWhen you write a memoir or personal essay, you dare to reveal the truths of your experience: about yourself, and about others in your life. How do you expose longguarded secrets and discuss bad behavior? How do you gracefully portray your family members, friends, spouses, exes, and children without damaging your relationships? How do you balance your respect for others with your desire to tell the truth?In The Truth of Memoir, bestselling memoirist Kerry Cohen provides insight and guidelines for depicting the characters who appear in your work with honesty and compassion. You'll learn how to choose which details to include and which secrets to tell, how to render the people in your life artfully and fully on the page, and what reactions you can expect from those you include in your workas well as from readers and the media.Featuring over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, The Truth of Memoir will give you the courage and confidence to write your storyand all of its requisite characterswith truth and grace."Kerry Cohen's The Truth of Memoir is a smart, soulful, psychologically astute guide to firstperson writing. She reveals everything you want to knowbut were afraid to askabout telling your life story." Susan Shapiro, author of eight books including Only As Good as Your Word, and coauthor of The Bosnia List
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