Welcome to the tenth Throwback Thursday post highlighting my past reviews for Chapter 16‘s website. I love whenever I get the opportunity to read nonfiction work from southern writers, and this time I got to read Shawna Kay Rodenberg’s memoir Kin.
What I loved most about Rodenberg’s book is how she does not feature her experience like most memoirists. Instead, she focuses on capturing her entire family and community by giving many of her relatives valuable time and space in the book.
As I write in the review, “In her determination to tell not just her own story, but the entire history of a family, Rodenberg accomplishes what few memoirists have, painting a comprehensive and honest picture of women’s lives in rural Appalachia.”
Keep reading the review from Chapter 16‘s website below!
Don’t forget there’s still time to order my latest chapbook from Plan B Press. https://www.planbpress.com/store/p77/Palm_Up%2C_Fingers_Curled_by_Abby_N._Lewis.html
Abby N. Lewis 
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