Gene Bodzin, a noted university professor and lecturer who

developed and led workshops on memoir writing for Carleton University, the Council on Aging, and Ottawa Independent Writers, recently sent me an email:  “I bought your memoir yesterday and did almost nothing but read it for the past twenty-four hours. It is one of the few books I have read that I did not want to put down. . . I have given memoir workshops for years and written blogs and books on the subject, so your book interested me both for its content and for its technique. The return in several chapters to the pivotal event in your life was a stroke of editing genius. And so was leaving the reader with a sense of mystery at the end. Your book gave me a great deal of pleasure.”