The Unruly Past: A Memoir

by Laura Kalpakian

To write a memoir is to take the grains of sand-individuals and particulars- and shape them into sandcastles. To make artful narrative of experience that, in the living of it, might have seemed random, even chaotic. Writing a memoir tames the unruly past, but it does not make it docile.

Celebrated novelist Laura Kalpakian grew up in Southern California amid a blending of vastly different cultures. Her mother was born in Constantinople,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0997210273
• ISBN13: 9780997210279
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Paint Creek Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"