MARCIA ALDRICH: The title of your book might be taken to describe the veracity of its account. Talbot and I conducted this interview by email. She is the author of a previous memoir, Loaded: Women and Addiction (Seal Press, 2007), and the editor of two anthologies that rewrite our generic notions of nonfiction and fiction - Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (University of Iowa Press, 2012), and The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together, coedited with Charles Blackstone (University of Texas Press, 2008). Talbot, celebrated for this sort of innovation, has long been interested in pushing the boundaries of genre. Rather than a chronological account, the book is a swirling mosaic of tiles Justin Hocking rightly blurbs that The Way We Weren’t “combines big emotional risk-taking with bold formal experimentation.” Then begins the dominant story of The Way We Weren’t, the story of a mother and daughter, expelled from their home, who start a life of wandering. IN JILL TALBOT’S NEW MEMOIR, the author and Kenny, the father of her daughter Indie, experience a brief spell as a family before he departs, when Indie is four months old, never to return.
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