6/22/2023 0 Comments The art of memoirKYM RAGUSA (Author, "The Skin Between Us"): Thank you. Also with us, Thulani Davis, her memoir "My Confederate Kinfolk" documents her search for the truth about her Southern white ancestors. Dominic Carter's memoir "No Momma's Boy" mines painful memories of his mother's mental illness and the abuse he suffered because of it. Kym Ragusa's book "The Skin Between Us" explores her attempts to negotiate the different worlds of her mother and father, one African-American, the other, Italian-American. How do you navigate through the pain and bias of personal experience to find a truth that's both personal and universal?Ĭontinuing our series on the black literary imagination, we turn to three writers who've taken on the unique challenges of the memoir. It's another thing to translate the story of your own life.
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