Personal Narrative


Owl Moon
Night
Fireflies
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Glass Castle
War's Unwomanly Face
Shortcut: An Award-Winning Suspenseful Picture Book About Trains and Family for Kids (Ages 4-8)
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother
Man's Search for Meaning
Educated
Marshfield Dreams: When I Was a Kid
Walden or, Life in the Woods
When I Was Young in the Mountains (Reading Rainbow Books)
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
24 books — 15 voters

Neal Winsomer
Legacy for my daughter matters more than competition, one-upping, or trying to make someone look bad. These pages exist for the long-term endurance of this narrative, so she can see another perspective and a bigger picture, whether I am here or gone.
Neal Winsomer, Calling Out the Shadows: A Father's Stand Against the Current: Clarity over comfort. Transparency over secrecy. Structure over spin. Love over anger.

Vivian Gornick
The presence in a memoir or an essay of the truth speaker - the narrator that a writer pulls out of his or her own agitated and boring self to organize a piece of experience - it was about this alone that I felt I had something to say; and it was to those works in which such a narrator comes through strong and clear that I was invariably drawn.
Vivian Gornick, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative

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