Category Archives: memoir writing

Dream of the Water Children – a memoir of half worlds and unpleasant history

Posted on July 21, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Fredrick Kakinami Cloyd is Black-Japanese, but actually he is Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and European from his mother’s side and black and Cherokee on his dad’s. He is Amerasian, a term Pearl Buck coined as she advocated for the many abandoned … Continue reading →

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Memoir: Writing the past imperfect

Posted on July 7, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Is your past perfect? Of course not, and that just means you’ve had a life. That’s the stuff some really good memoirs are made of. Even if we don’t have big stories of past troubles, we are not perfect, and … Continue reading →

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Memoir: Your Journey, an Inheritance

Posted on February 10, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

Now what? Last week I attended our county library’s author event with Dani Shapiro, whose latest book is Inheritance: A memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love. The room was packed, all to hear her fascinating story of shocking discovery through … Continue reading →

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