![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This blessedly sprawling memoir is an invitation to join a conversation. In Recollections of My Nonexistence, her new memoir chronicling her coming of age as a poor white woman in San Francisco, acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit embraces that sense of freedom and wants to share it with others. It’s a terrifying state of liberation that can exact a high price-or grant you a life far beyond your expectations. Women speak out because they can’t keep the truth a secret any longer. Silence becomes a personal liability when truth is on the line. Who are these women writers that couldn’t stay quiet? It’s not so much that they want to make a statement, to shatter glass ceilings it’s that they just can’t keep quiet anymore. Perhaps it’s this tension that makes women’s memoirs so compelling. It’s a lesson passed down in almost every social and cultural setting. ![]()
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