reading memoir

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Read Like a Writer, Part 7: First Impressions – Dance of the Dissident Daughter 3

by Amber Lea Starfire

THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE ARTICLES, in which we discuss Sue Monk Kidd’s memoir, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter: A Woman’s Journey from Christian Tradition to the Sacred Feminine. Originally published in 1992, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter, in which Sue Monk Kidd writes about her awakening […]

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Why We Love Memoir 2

by Amber Lea Starfire

WHAT IS IT ABOUT MEMOIR that fascinates and draws us to it in a way that fiction, while entertaining and enlightening, does not? Why do we love reading such intimate, first-person stories of challenge, struggle, and triumph? Is it, as some would claim, a tabloid-style voyeuristic curiosity? Is is that […]

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