Let's Talk Memoir

Episode 58 ft. Leslie Ferguson

Brooke Warner

Leslie Ferguson joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about surviving childhood trauma and her mother’s psychosis, approaching her manuscript through an editorial lens, the toll of insecure attachment, how writing the story that forged her helped her shed some of the pain she carried, and her approach to choosing scenes that stayed in her memoir When I Was Her Daughter.

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Episode 236 ft. Rachel Tzvia Back

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