Novels have intricate plots, verse has musical forms, history and biography enjoy the sheen of objective truth. In memoir, one event follows another. Birth leads to puberty leads to sex. The books are held together by happenstance, theme, and {most powerfully} the sheer, convincing poetry of a single person trying to make sense of the past.
( Mary Karr )
[ The Art of Memoir ]
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