You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
I__e written more about my parents than any writer in the history of the world, and I still return to their mysterious effigies as I try to figure out what it all means__ome kind of annunciation or maybe even a summing-up They still exert immense control over me even though they__e been dead for so long. But I can conjure up their images without exerting a thimbleful of effort.
A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
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I__e written more about my parents than any writer in the history of the world, and I still return to their mysterious effigies as I try to figure out what it all means__ome kind of annunciation or maybe even a summing-up They still exert immense control over me even though they__e been dead for so long. But I can conjure up their images without exerting a thimbleful of effort.
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