Unveiling Heartbreak and Healing: Brenda Miller Reveals the Secrets Behind Her Powerful New Memoir.
RP: I love that you did that! And also — what an incredibly well written essay! She was really good.
BM: I only edited it a bit! I got the idea because of course, I have a whole bag of her writings, and I had just gotten done writing an essay about my mother’s handwriting. I thought, I wonder if they would go for having a piece of my mom’s in there? And they did. I couldn’t believe it. As I’ve been doing book events, I made a looping PowerPoint slideshow of all the pictures in the book. At one of the events, a friend caught a photo of me reading from the book with a big smile on my face, and right above me is my mom smiling down at me.
