Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page

"In her keen-eyed and hilariously funny new book . . . novelist and memoirist Lynn Freed tells how writers deal with life's large and little tribulations" (O, The Oprah Magazine).

These eleven essays combine a memoir of an exotic life, reflections on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the ever-complex relationship between fiction and life. "Taming the Gorgon," an account of translating a difficult parent into fiction becomes a poignant and funny meditation on the...