{"product_id":"the-truth-of-memoir-how-to-write-about-yourself-and-others-with-honesty-emotion-and-integrity-9781599637990","title":"The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity","description":"Baring the Truth in Your Memoir \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen you write a memoir or personal essay, you dare to reveal the truths of your experience: about yourself, and about others in your life. How do you expose long-guarded secrets and discuss bad behavior? How do you gracefully portray your family members, friends, spouses, exes, and children without damaging your relationships? How do you balance your respect for others with your desire to tell the truth? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, best-selling memoirist Kerry Cohen provides insight and guidelines for depicting the characters who appear in your work with honesty and compassion. You'll learn how to choose which details to include and which secrets to tell, how to render the people in your life artfully and fully on the page, and what reactions you can expect from those you include in your work--as well as from readers and the media. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing over twenty candid essays from memoirists sharing their experiences and advice, as well as exercises for writing about others in your memoirs and essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e will give you the courage and confidence to write your story--and all of its requisite characters--with truth and grace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Kerry Cohen's \u003ci\u003eThe Truth of Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, soulful, psychologically astute guide to first-person writing. She reveals everything you want to know--but were afraid to ask--about telling your life story.\" --Susan Shapiro, author of eight books including \u003ci\u003eOnly As Good as Your Word\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bosnia List\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKerry Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two memoirs: \u003ci\u003eLoose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeeing Ezra: A Mother's Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and The Meaning of Normal\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing has been featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Modern Love series, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Mama\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other anthologies and journals.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Writer's Digest Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914190524690,"sku":"9781599637990","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8cbe2b11-02d4-4e7e-b6c8-34c99858259e.jpg?v=1738809196","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-truth-of-memoir-how-to-write-about-yourself-and-others-with-honesty-emotion-and-integrity-9781599637990","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}