Memoir project #1: The Rabbi's Daughter

[soleta_nf]

This summer I'm on a mission to read books of memoir. I started with The Rabbi's Daughter, by Reva Mann, billed as a true story of sex, drugs, and orthodoxy. I really enjoyed it, but found it disconcerting that there was no plot synopsis on the book, at least the version I had. A friend had loaned me the book, but without further description I don'

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[chrryblssmninja]

wow, verb tenses are important

[spectralbovine]

The book is written primarily in first person, which I've decided I don't like as a writing style.
...But it's a memoir. Do people write memoirs in third-person?

[soleta_nf]

Ummm... I think I meant "present tense" here. Apologies. It was written and posted quickly. :S

[spectralbovine]

Ha ha ha, I thought that maybe that's what you meant, but then I thought, hey, she's the memoir expert...

[soleta_nf]

LOL. No, I was waiting for my friends to pick me up to see Star Trek again, and I had an urge to write, and all that came out. I finished just as they arrived, and posted. I responded to your comment at their house. I'm home now and re-read the above passage, and YES I totally meant present tense, hee. Thank you for pointing that out!

(On a side note, I *have* heard people complain that they hate first-person writing, and that's why they don't like memoirs/autobiographies, but, yeah, I don't know how you'd get around that. ...Unless you turned it into autobiographical fiction, which I'm not interested in doing.)