Unraveling Grief and Love: The Haunting Journey Within "Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell"
Reviewed by Linda Lowen
Prior to 1995, any writer who hoped to publish a memoir faced an impenetrable wall built atop the foundational belief that only celebrity stories ‘sell.’ If you weren’t a household name, you were persona non grata to agents and editors—until one extraordinary narrative from an unlikely source toppled that wall.
“Long before jumpstarting the memoir revival in 1995 with The Liar’s Club, [Mary] Karr was a prize-winning poet,” wrote Robert M. Enslin in a publication for Syracuse University, where Karr still teaches. “Writing verse helped her compete for her mother’s attention, while growing up in rough-and-tumble East Texas.”
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