Inside the Mind Behind Terms & Conditions: Amy Goldmacher Reveals the Untold Story of Her Memoir
MF: The use of artifacts adds a tactileness to Terms & Conditions. I think one of my favorites is your father’s puttanesca recipe, crumpled paper and all. How did you choose what you chose to include? Were there any primary sources that ultimately did not work in the book’s final iteration?
AG: Luckily, my mother kept a lot of my father’s stuff. Stuff that lived in boxes and survived multiple moves over multiple decades. So I got to go through what remained, and it raised questions: why did this bit of work correspondence get saved? Why these photos or toys? I think it was the pieces that I had the least answers for were the most interesting for me, and creating the best or most likely answer gave me a bit of closure.
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