![]() ![]() ![]() She chooses a narrative voice that speaks from a point located somewhere between an unreconstructed part of herself and a responsible adult. Livingston narrates Ghostbread to suggest that her experiences tell something immutable about human existence. Most memoirs are composed as if memory unmasks the past and liberates the future. ![]() “I see with agonizing clarity from where I stand,” she writes in the epilogue of those who now live in poverty, “and though I’d love to point them in new directions, there is no rope strong enough to pull someone from one life to another.” Sonja Livingston’s Ghostbread is a memoir about growing up poor, fatherless, white, Catholic, and one of seven children in the bleak neighborhoods of Buffalo and Rochester, the towns along Lake Ontario, and an Indian reservation during the 1970s. ![]()
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