Heather Finley

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090908/ap_en_ce/us_traveling_with_pomegranates

          Guess this is one way to follow in your mother’s shoes.  This is actually a really cool idea if you ask me.  Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair, and her daughter Ann Kidd Taylor have wrote a book together.  It is a memior which captures both Kidd moving into middle age and Taylor growing up into young adulthood.

          First off, I think this will be a very interesting juxtaposition.  There is points in everyone’s life that are big adjectments so seeing two genrations of a family going through them will be interesting.  I also really like that they are mentioning how Kidd wrote her books.  As a writer trying to become a published author I find that all very interesting.  One of my very favorite memiors is Two Weeks With My Brother by Nicholas and Micah Sparks.  It was about a trip they took together but also a lot about their lives growing up.  It told a lot about the inspiration behind all of Sparks books.  I was so interesting.  Even my dad, who had never read anything by Sparks, liked it because it was such a good story of two brothers growing up.

          The book is also set to take place in a variety of countries.  I don’t know about anyone else but I would love to travel the world so I find books a way to do that since I don’t have the money to do it in real life.   The book Atlas of a Human Heart by Ariel Gore is usually found under travel memior and I love that look too.  Check out Gore if you haven’t.  She spoke to one of my classes and teaches a writing workshop in Portland.  I’m dying to take it but haven’t had the chance to yet.

          Do you like memiors?  Have you read any of Kidds other work?