Comments on: Alice Sebold’s Lucky, a searing memoir of trauma http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/alice-sebolds-lucky-a-searing-memoir-of-trauma/ Hundreds of Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:04:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Body Impolitic - Blog Archive - » Off-Kilter: Memoir, Healing, and Linda Wisniewski’s Story - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/alice-sebolds-lucky-a-searing-memoir-of-trauma/comment-page-1/#comment-4629 Body Impolitic - Blog Archive - » Off-Kilter: Memoir, Healing, and Linda Wisniewski’s Story - Laurie Toby Edison: Photographer Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:25:35 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/alice-sebolds-lucky-a-searing-memoir-of-trauma/#comment-4629 [...] “lucky” to have survived, seeing as how earlier victims were murdered and dismembered. Waxler points out the value of writing in making sense of traumatic [...] [...] “lucky” to have survived, seeing as how earlier victims were murdered and dismembered. Waxler points out the value of writing in making sense of traumatic [...]

]]> By: Sharon Lippincott, aka Ritergal http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/alice-sebolds-lucky-a-searing-memoir-of-trauma/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Sharon Lippincott, aka Ritergal Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:32:23 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/alice-sebolds-lucky-a-searing-memoir-of-trauma/#comment-154 Jerry, This post is the most compelling explanation I have ever read on the subject of the power of writing about trauma, as well as the challenges of doing so in a meaningful way. I salute the courage it took for you to stay the course to the end of the book, and for interpreting the lessons for those who don't feel up to reading it. Hopefully your analysis will encourage more people to read and benefit from what sounds like an amazing book. Thank you! Jerry,

This post is the most compelling explanation I have ever read on the subject of the power of writing about trauma, as well as the challenges of doing so in a meaningful way. I salute the courage it took for you to stay the course to the end of the book, and for interpreting the lessons for those who don’t feel up to reading it. Hopefully your analysis will encourage more people to read and benefit from what sounds like an amazing book. Thank you!

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