I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them.
And while it is true that I got the best woman in the world, I don't think love saves you.
I can't write what I don't believe in.
I have a terrible memory.
Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.
Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)
Mama learned to laugh with them, before they could laugh at her, and to do it so well no one could be sure what she really thought or felt.
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