Uncovering Hidden Truths: Luanne Castle Reveals the Untold Stories Behind Scrap: Salvaging a Family
RBP: Scrap opens with the definition of bastard. Throughout your work, you take unconventional approaches in your prose. You bold first sentences; some vignettes are shorter while others are longer. Part I of your memoir is much longer than Parts II and Parts III. Do you feel like the various forms you embrace strengthened the meaning in your narrative? At what point did you decide to make your story an experimental memoir?
LC: I thought of my story for years as a traditionally structured memoir, revising and rewriting over and over again. But chapters never worked for me. I instinctively despised the extra words it took to bind everything together. This isn’t the way memory works. And my story had to cover a lengthy period, truly starting with my father’s father’s youth and leading up to my father’s passing. That’s not how memoir usually functions.
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