Month: October 2022

Accidental Sisters: Katherine Linn Caire’s surprising adoption memoir

Accidental Sisters: Katherine Linn Caire’s surprising adoption memoir. Caire with her sister, book cover of Accidental Sisters: The story of my 52 year wait to meet my biological sibling, and a portrait photo of Caire. Photos by Katherine Linn Caire, Books Fluent and Justin Wright
Accidental Sisters: The story of my 52 year wait to meet my biological sibling (centre) by Katherine Linn Caire (right), and with her sister (left). Photos by Katherine Linn Caire, Books Fluent and Justin Wright

Case study: Siblings’ soul-stirring story 52 years in the making

Katherine Linn Caire’s new memoir is a wild and heartwarming story.

Accidental Sisters: The story of my 52 year wait to meet my biological sibling, by Books Fluent, starts with Caire’s desire to know her medical history.

However, this unexpected journey leads her to family she never knew were missing.

Forever Young Autobiographies caught up with Caire to discover more about her first life-story book, how she created it plus tips for first-time creators … 

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All That She Carried: A National Book Awards winning family story by Tiya Miles

All That She Carried: A National Book Awards winning family story by Tiya Miles. Book cover of All That She Carried: The journey of Ashley’s sack, a black family keepsake by Tiya Miles, Penguin Random House, and portrait shot of Miles outside wearing a white shirt. Photos by Penguin Random House and Kimberly P. Mitchell of USA Today Network
All That She Carried: The journey of Ashley’s sack, a black family keepsake (left) by Tiya Miles (right), Penguin Random House. Photos by Penguin Random House and Kimberly P. Mitchell of USA Today Network

Book review: What you need to know about a South Carolina slavery keepsake that ended up in the Smithsonian

All That She Carried: The journey of Ashley’s sack, a black family keepsake is a story of resistence against all odds.

It was penned by Harvard Professor Tiya Miles and tells how in the 1850s an enslaved South Carolina girl Ashley, 9, was sold away from her mother Rose.

The life story was published by Penguin Random House last year and named the National Book Awards 2021 Nonfiction winner.

So read on to find out more about the book, what makes it so interesting and what we can glean to inspire our own life-story projects …

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