Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me Keane Erin
Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me Keane Erin From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell.In 1970, Erin Keane's…
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Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me Keane Erin
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell.In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. She was thirteen years old.
He was thirty-six.Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother's teenage years, questioning almost everything she's been told about her parents and their relationship. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. Along the way, she also considers how pop culture has kept similar narratives alive in her.
At stake are some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves: What's true? What
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