Two memoir writers share the most personally transformative experiences of their life. For Angela Garbes, it was pregnancy. When the food and culture writer received conflicting and vague answers to what she thought were simple questions about the reproductive process, she did a deep dive into the science behind it. Deidre Timmons was diagnosed with an aggressive and inoperable brain tumor just as her mother was descending deep in Alzheimer’s and her husband was venturing into the restaurant business. Both reveal their experiences with humor, objectivity and refreshing honesty. Host by Abigail Carter.
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Angela Garbes is the author of Like a Mother, her 2018 narrative nonfiction book exploring the emerging science and cultural myths of pregnancy. The book was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and she was featured on “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine’s The Cut and in a previous life, she was the staff food writer at The Stranger. Her next project is a book of reported essays about bodies.
Deirdre Timmons is a writer and filmmaker who penned Brain Candy, a memoir about her experience of living through treatment for an inoperable brain tumor while caring for her mother dying of Alzheimer’s. Her films include the 2008 documentary, “A Wink and a Smile” about Seattle’s neo-burlesque movement. She is work on a follow-up book on how her mother put her on endless diets as a child, an experience that haunted her notion about weight and self image well into adulthood.
Abigail Carter was a Canadian expat living in New Jersey when her husband died in the Sept. 11th attacks. Stunned and grieving, she moved to Seattle with her two young children. What started as a form of catharsis became a memoir, The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation. The book was named one of the 100 most Notable Books of 2008 by The Globe and Mail and long listed for Canada’s largest Non-Fiction prize. Her latest work is a novel, Remember the Moon. Her work has appeared in SELF magazine, Reader's Digest Canada,
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