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Summary: Above all, hope.
Review: There's a whole slew of books out that strive to inspire via "happy ending" stories. The prayer is answered, a mysterious stranger appears to set things right in the nick of time. But as Reynolds Price, one of the authors of in this collection writes, "The answer to most prayers is: No." In "Survival Stories" Editor Kathryn Rhett presents unanesthized stories of the people whose lives took that hairpin turn, got the fatal diagnosis, bore the child that would never get better, lost the face to snarling huskie or the jaw to cancer, failed at marriage not once but twice...all the things you hope, pray or smugly believe righteous living will stave off, but happen any way. This book is sobering, clear-eyed, and, in spite of being filled with people whose bodies, minds, souls have been flayed, inspiring, for these authors have all gone on living. They write of the will to survive that is what you are left with once every layer has been painstakin! gly peeled away.
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Summary: Genre defining anthology
Review: This genre defining anthology proves essential reading for anyone interested in the contemporary memoir.Highlights include the editor's lucid and exacting introduction, and affecting essays by Rick Moody, Lucy Grealy, Natalie Kusz and Richard McCann. Taken together this impressive collection offers both the challenges and consolations we expect of great literature.
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