Into being

<p><b>The acclaimed author of <i>Sins of My Father </i>shares the secrets of writing a new transformative kind of memoir.</b><br><br><i>Into being </i>is an essential guide to writing radical and empowering memoir. Drawing on her experience as a memoirist and a teacher of creative writing Lily Dunn presents the ground-breaking idea that the <i>craft </i>of memoir itself can offer a form of transformation.<br><br>Dunn demystifies the memoirist's art helping readers to find meaning in raw experience and elevate the personal to the universal. She considers compelling questions from why our memories give greater significance to certain events to how we can write honestly without intruding too far into the lives of our loved ones. She also explores how writers are extending the memoir form to create something hybrid playful and subversive.<br><br>In an age of social media filled with confessions re-inventions and distortions of the self the question of what it means to be an individual is more urgent than ever. <i>Into being </i>shows readers how to turn writing memoir into a journey of discovery - one that can be shared with the whole world.</p>