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I cannot wait for you to publish this novel.

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Are you putting this together as a memoir from your own child and then adult point of view? It might be even more powerful to fictionalize it, and tell it in the present tense from the POV of one or both of your parents. That is how I decided to tell my parents' Oak Ridge WWII stories, although obviously there are many choices that go into the decision to create a memoir vs. a novel. I struggled with that, but ultimately wrote it as a novel with a lot of fictional elements. Still, I really enjoyed imagining how my mother might have felt as a young woman. I think the process helped me grieve for her more fully, even though she died in 1992. However, as we commented after your last post, your mother sadly did not have a lot of bandwidth for mothering. That might make it extra painful and difficult to try to enter her inner world!

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