Swimming In The Trees: More tips from experts, or, do you get the impression I'm leading up to something?

Invisible Sisters: A Memoir

Invisible Sisters is Jessica Handler’s powerful tale of coming of age as the daughter of progressive Jewish parents who moved to Atlanta to participate in the social-justice movement of the 1960s, the healthy sister living in the shadow of her siblings’ illnesses, a daughter in a family torn apart by impossible circumstances, and as a young woman struggling to redefine herself after her sisters’ deaths.

Handler’s baby sister had been born with Kostmann’s Syndrome—a congenital blood disorder so rare that it appears in one in every two million births—and she and her family grew accustomed to the constantly shifting demands of illness. But when her younger sister was diagnosed with leukemia at age six, Jessica’s world, and her family, began to unravel. By the age of nine, Jessica Handler had begun to introduce herself as the “well sibling” and to consider the very real possibility that one day, she would be the only one left.

Invisible Sisters is the award-winning memoir of the unforgettable journey that she and her family faced.

Monday, January 28, 2013

More tips from experts, or, do you get the impression I'm leading up to something?

If you get the impression that these tips from experts are leading up to something, you might be right. In fact, you are right.

While we wait for the big reveal, let me redirect you to my friend Lee Martin, a Pulitzer-Prize nominee, author of several terrific memoirs and several more outstanding novels. Lee's a teacher extraordinaire, and I check his blog and FB regularly for what seems almost supernaturally exactly what I need when I'm writing. Do I need a dialogue boost? Why, here's a tip. How about a discussion of scene and setting? Look here, he's done it again.

I am delighted to be on the faculty of the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Conference this spring, which means that even if I have to miss Lee's workshop because it's at the same time as mine, I'll still get to bask in his smarts.

Use this link to his craft blog, "The Least You Need to Know" regularly !

2 comments:

Anjali said...: Already read and love his blog! Congrats on your new position!; January 28, 2013 at 12:16 PM
jessica handler said...: It's indispensable, isn't it? PS What new position?; January 28, 2013 at 12:18 PM