Memoirs of Survival: Reading the Past and Writing it Down Mary Karr's The Liars' Club and Barbara Robinette Moss' Change Me Into Zeus' Daughter

ALAN Review, Winter 2005 by Marler, Myrna Dee

Memoirs by men would recount different but essentially similar stories of finding language and personal truth in framing a narrative with words. Certainly such a theme would be welcome in any adolescent English classroom.

Works Cited

Dillard, Annie. "To Fashion a Text." The Fourth Cenre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. 2nd ed. Eds. Robert L. Root, Jr. and Michael Steinberg. New York: Longman, 2002: 236-245.

Hampl, Patricia. "Memory and Imagination." The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction. 2nd ed. Eds. Robert L Root, Jr. and Michael Steinberg. New York: Longman, 2002: 259-268.

Karr, Mary. The Liars' Club. New York: Penguin, 1995.

Robinette Moss, Barbara. Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter. New York: Scribner, 1999.

Myrna Dee Marier is an associate professor of English at Brigham young University Hawaii Campus. She specializes in creative writing and young adult literature.