Norma Jean's Sun, Memoir
Nominated for Best Memoir of 2009
Sound travels far inside a home at night for every child who hears
the whispers and tears through the upstairs banister. Just as this ripple in one
family’s history grew to a wave of fear, so did the stature of the individuals
who had witnessed it. The future carries the scars from the harm done before.
One hopes that the past will allow us to shape and control the next step, to
avoid the dangers, the foolish errors and mistakes that echo the last
generation, and the one before that. But instead, the path, though inviting with
its colors of gold and silver and the sounds of laughter and joy, is also
shrouded in mystery, obscured in grays. Never in our silent moments of illusion
do we sense the dark parallel that lives beside us. Nor do we suspect the
carrier.
(Excerpt,
Chapter 1)
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