A Persistent Woman: A Memoir

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Plaut takes the licensing exam, nails it, and takes her pleather seat behind the wheel. Indulging an all-encompassing fascination with death , twenty-something Caitlin Doughty seeks out a job at a crematory.

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Meanwhile, she continues to hone her free-thinking and unflappable approach to death. Her work brings constant apprehension as her patients show aggression and anger, but also reveal deep scars from brutal childhoods, the prison system , and lifetimes of disenfranchisement.

She doubts herself; she doubts her patients. Cox describes heeding the call, while still a child, to leave the safety of the pool and swim in open water. By age sixteen, she held the world record for swimming the English Channel.

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And her feats get still more towering from there. Back-to-the-land memoirs can be formulaic affairs, but when the land being gone back to is a wasted fragment at the end of a dead-end street next to a freeway in Oakland , the story defies simplification. But her transformation of a scrap of city land left for dead is a story worth following. As a child, Hope Jahren followed her scientist father, a longtime college professor, around his lab; she writes that for him, science was not just a job, but an identity.

Will he keep putting them off? However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth? All rights reserved worldwide.

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Frey took the fall, yet all the interested parties were invested in, if not exactly the deception, the willing suspension of doubt. A lot of money was riding on it: We make sense of our lives by ordering events in narrative form; we find and construct meaning and identity in this way. The kind of scrutiny the Frey case raised has pushed us to go further in our attempts to both acknowledge memoir's conceits and work with and against them.

There are ways in which our stories are framed and narrated for effect, there are moments of compression and expansiveness that don't necessarily reflect the time it took for certain events to be lived, we leave out the boring uneventful stuff and make omissions for reasons of poeticism or unity or preservation--of ourselves and the relationships we hope will survive the memoir's publication. We focus on what is salient to us at a particular moment, we link experiences through time, finding parallels and thematic resonance, we craft a story so that our lives have texture and meaning and are something more than simply a recollection or chronology of fact.

This has never been a secret because this is what we all do, whether we are are writers or not.

At a minimum, when we tell someone else a story we give it a beginning, middle and end. We add humility, heroism, pathos, humour. Perhaps we end with a lesson we did not see in the moment of the event, but only find in the aftermath, in the telling. David Shields, author of the manifesto "Reality Hunger" goes as far as to say that "anything processed through memory is fiction.

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