Red Girl Jumping: an experimental memoir written by memory

RED GIRL JUMPING is a fable-like memoir by Kim Merrill, a New York playwright. It is the story of Kimberly, a grown woman, and Red Girl, a shard of memory trapped in her mind, who is also the narrator of this spellbinding story of dissociation and healing. As Red Girl tells it, her job is to protect Kimberly from her secret of childhood incest. She does so with mission-like zeal until Kimberly reaches her thirties. Then-to her shame-Red Girl unleashes a torrent that upends Kimberly's life. ...