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Piecing Together My Father’s Murder

“I was too young to remember what happened to my dad, and no one explained it to me. So I tried to assemble the story myself.”

Featuring standout reads from Ian Urbina, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sallie Tisdale, Brad Rassler, and Adam Reiner.

“One of the pivotal purposes of memoir is to unveil the shades of meaning that exist in what we believe.”

“Henry Wismayer lost his dad to cancer at the age of four. He thinks through the ways it has shaped his life.”

“A disappearance in Arkansas.”

“A grieving daughter channels family memories along the Nueces.”

Making sense of absence in the ever-dissolving karst of Missouri.

A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury.

“He had indeed seen a blue sweater, but did he remember it on the wrong girl?”

“Our archive of memories is the closest thing we have to a record of identity.”