Losing My Sister A Memoir Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves writes Judy Goldman in her memoir Losing My Sister They become home to us tell us who we are who we want to be Over the years they
Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves, writes Judy Goldman in her memoir, Losing My Sister They become home to us, tell us who we are, who we want to be Over the years, they take on and embellishments and adornments until they eclipse the actual memory They become our past just as a snapshot will, at first, enhance a memory, then Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves, writes Judy Goldman in her memoir, Losing My Sister They become home to us, tell us who we are, who we want to be Over the years, they take on and embellishments and adornments until they eclipse the actual memory They become our past just as a snapshot will, at first, enhance a memory, then replace it As she remembers it now, Goldman s was an idyllic childhood, charmed even, filled with parental love and sisterly confidences Growing up in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Judy and her older sister, Brenda, did everything together Though it was clear from an early age that their personalities were very different Judy was the sweet one, Brenda, the strong one , they continued to be fairly inseparable into adulthood.But the love between sisters is complex Though Judy and Brenda remained close, Goldman recalls struggling to break free of her prescribed role as the agreeable little sister and to assert herself even as she built her own life and started a family.The sisters relationship became further strained by the illnesses and deaths of their parents, and later, by the discovery that each had tumors in their breasts Judy s benign, Brenda s malignant The two sisters came back together shortly before the possibility of permanent loss became very real In her uniquely lyrical and poignant style, Goldman deftly navigates past events and present emotions, drawing rea
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Judy Goldman is the author of a new memoir, Losing My Sister published October 2012 Excerpts appeared in Real Simple Magazine and Drafthorse, an online journal She is also the author of two novels, Early Leaving and The Slow Way Back, as well as two books of poetry, Holding Back Winter and Wanting To Know the End.She has received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction, the Gerald Cable Poetry Prize, the Roanoke Chowan Prize for Poetry, the Oscar Arnold Young Prize for Poetry, and the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for Poetry Her work has been published in many literary journals, including Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Ohio Review, Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and Prairie Schooner.Goldman s book reviews have appeared in The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer She offers writing tips on her blog at judygoldman blog.Goldman lives with her husband in Charlotte, North Carolina.