Personal Narrative


Owl Moon
Fireflies
Night
War's Unwomanly Face
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Diary of a Young Girl
Shortcut: An Award-Winning Suspenseful Picture Book About Trains and Family for Children (Ages 4-8)
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
The Glass Castle
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Man's Search for Meaning
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
The Night Walk
The Search for Mother Missing by Janine VanceTwins Found in a Box by Janine VanceGoing Back to Zen by Janine VanceYou Don't Look Adopted by Anne HeffronAdoption History 101 by Janine Myung Ja
Adult Adoptee Memoirs
23 books — 14 voters

Vivian Gornick
The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

at the end of the day, the narratives, myths, and frameworks you use to make sense of the world are only approximations, they are never the truth. If you are able to pick the most suitable one for the moment or your situation , by reframing, this is an essential skill for survival in a fast changing and uncertain world.
Bryan Callen

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