Published: May 13, 2019
In her Stella prize-winning memoir, The Erratics, Vicki Laveau-Harvie deals with the trauma she experienced at the hands of a parent. Writing it, though, was anything but cathartic
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At a recent book event where I spoke, an audience member about my age took hold of a microphone to ask, with something bordering on combativeness, if I had a will. She said she asked because I was old, as was she, and we were both going to die soon.
I was taken aback. My memoir, The Erratics, touches only glancingly on my age and not at all on how I keep my paperwork – but this question made me think about how we write memoir, and how we read it.
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