Unveiling Heartbreak and Healing: Brenda Miller Reveals the Secrets Behind Her Powerful New Memoir.
But at a certain place, the memory kind of stops. It comes to its own conclusion, and it could have been the conclusion to my essay, but instead I found myself writing, “Years later, now that my father is gone…” So now I’m bringing in the wiser adult narrator to look at the memory and think, why am I remembering this right at this moment? Oh, maybe it’s because I see my father and everyone else who’s gone as the ghost we invite into our lives and our home. It becomes about so much more. And it’s just a tiny little paragraph. If I ended the essay where the memory ended, it just would be an anecdote.
