“Uncovering Hidden Truths: Caroline Topperman Reveals the Secrets Behind ‘Your Roots Cast a Shadow'”
MDH: The memoir alternates between the present of the book, which is you and your husband, Pawel, living in Poland, with stories of your grandparents and parents written from their perspectives. There are so many choices to be made when we set out to tell the stories of others based on documents and interviews.
In writing your family members’ stories from their points of view, complete with internal thoughts and justification for the decisions they made, you had to have relied quite a bit on invention. Was this way of telling the stories one you landed on right from the start, or did it emerge in the process?
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