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The Memoir Club. Can writing a memoir endow the past with a significance it did not have when it was the present? Six women are brought together in a university Extension class, Writing the Memoir. Six months later an act of shocking violence shatters their world, but strengthens their bonds.
Jan 27, 2004 · Mrs. Francine Hellman wants her memoir to laud her late husband, the scientist Dr. Marcus Hellman, only to find he had a past unknown to her. The elderly, unconventional Sarah Jane Perkins writes to come to terms with the cruelties her rigid mother inflicted on her artistic, bootlegging father.
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Apr 1, 2005 · Six women, each with her own misgivings, take a university extension night class in Writing Your Memoir, looking only for a little bibliotherapy. The following semester, they meet privately at the gracious home of one of the participants. The memoir class becomes the memoir club.
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- Laura Kalpakian
Oct 8, 2017 · When I first toyed with the idea of writing a novel about a memoir class, I thought I would write faux memoirs by different, first-person authors. But as my experience in memoir groups expanded, I began to see that off the page lives intertwined.
Jan 1, 2004 · THE MEMOIR CLUB. by Laura Kalpakian ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 2004. So much uplift can become trying. bookshelf. shop now. The club of the title offers structure for Kalpakian ( Educating Waverly, 2002, etc.) as she delves—and delves—into grief and loss.
- Laura Kalpakian
A group of women, strangers to each other, take a memoir writing class, and when the class is over, form their own memoir writing club. Looking into the past through the filter of time, is, as they discover, a very dangerous prospect.
Memory into Memoir provides a lively guide for anyone looking to wrestle the unruly past onto the page. In thirteen chapters, Laura Kalpakian provides tools to develop narrative form, scenic depiction, character development, and dialogue.
