Introduction: Mapping Hope
Joy Castro
Part 1. Drawing Lines
Chewing Band-Aids: One Memoirist's Take on the Telling of Family Secrets
Jill Christman
Sally Could Delete Whatever She Wanted
Paul Austin
Case by Case: When It Comes to Family You Still Have to Talk To
Mimi Schwartz
At Its Center
Paul Lisicky
The Day I Cried at Starbucks
Ruth Behar
Memory Lessons
Rigoberto González
The Part I Can't Tell You
Ariel Gore
Part 2. The Right to Speak
What the Little Old Ladies Feel: How I Told My Mother about My Memoir
Alison Bechdel
Truths We Could Live With
Robin Hemley
Writing the Black Family Home
Faith Adiele
The Deeper End of the Quarry: Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Family Dilemma
Dinty W. Moore
Mama's Voices
Susan Olding
Living in Someone Else's Closet
Susan Ito
Part 3. Filling the Silence
The True Story
Karen Salyer McElmurray
I Might Be Famous
Ralph James Savarese
A Spell against Sorrow: Writing My Father In
Judith Ortiz Cofer
Things We Don't Talk About
Aaron Raz Link
You Can't Burn Everything
Allison Hedge Coke
Done with Grief: The Memoirist's Illusion
Sandra Scofield
Part 4. Conversations of Hope
The Seed Book
Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Calling Back
Lorraine M. López
Like Rain on Dust
Richard Hoffman
The Bad Asian Daughter
Bich Minh Nguyen
Your Mother Should Know
Sue William Silverman
Writing about Family
Heather Sellers
Gratitude
Source Acknowledgments
Contributors
