"Big 8x10 glossies in a leatherette album fastened in place by black tabs, pictures so primal they're glued in mind more powerfully than memory itself, as if the 20th century gave everybody an extra kit bag of memories, your own flimsy, inexact ones, and the incontrovertible evidence of photo albums...
Lovely essays about writing memoirs and reading them, the writer's life and the worthiness of a life making sense of the ordinary.
According to the biographical info on the back flap of this book, this is Patricia Hampl's fifth memoir. I haven't read any of the others, and since this one left me quite underwhelmed, I'm not sure that I would.A memoir doesn't absolutely require a narrative arc, but I think that a reader might fin...
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