Theresa
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Lorena Cassady:
Hi Lorena, What made you decide to write a style of memoir over fiction?
Lorena Cassady
That's an interesting question because I struggled with the genre problem. Memoirists told me I had to tell the truth and nothing but the truth (which is an unexamined proposition, since no one is endowed with perfect, factual memory) and fiction did not define what I was doing since something over 50% of the book was memoir and a record of historical events. I call "Her Perilous Journey" a picaresque memoir because that's what it is, and for me it honestly represents what the reader should expect. Hope I answered your question.
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Cathy Sylvia
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Lorena Cassady:
Hi Lorena, This is Cathy Cassady, eldest child of Neal Cassady and Carolyn Cassady. I volunteered at the fabulous writers' conference in San Miguel de Allende this year (2017). That was a transformative experience for me! Besides being a struggling writer myself, my dad died there, so it was significant on many levels. I have two queries: Have you attended that conference? Could we be related? Hope so! Thx.
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