Harry Ransom Center Presents: Writing Our Way Out of the Past
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Saturday, November 8
Capitol Extension Room: E2.016 (1100 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701)
Two unforgettable memoirs confront the chaos, contradictions, and creative fuel buried in personal history. In A Truce That Is Not Peace, internationally bestselling author Miriam Toews traces her journey through grief, guilt, and the elusive question of why we write. Through fragments, memory, and dark humor, she builds a form expansive enough to hold both silence and survival. In Destroy This House, Amanda Uhle revisits a childhood shaped by hoarding, hustle, and a fierce, dysfunctional love — crafting a story of escape, resilience, and the complicated act of parenting one’s parents. This conversation explores how writers transform disorder into meaning and how the past continues to echo through the stories we choose to tell.
- Books: A Truce That is Not Peace, Destroy This House: A Memoir
- Book Type: Non Fiction
- Authors: Miriam Toews, Amanda Uhle
- Moderator: S. Kirk Walsh
- Book Signing: 2:30 PM at The Main Book Signing Tent
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