Darkroom: A Family Exposure

Darkroom: A Family Exposure - Paperback

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Darkroom: A Family Exposure - Paperback

Darkroom: A Family Exposure - Paperback

by Jill Christman
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Book Overview

by Jill Christman (Author), Lynda J. Morgan (Contribution by), Matthew McKee (Editor)

Darkroom: A Family Exposure is Jill Christman's gripping, funny, and wise account of her first thirty years. Although her story runs the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual abuse, accidental death, and psychological trauma, Christman's poignant memoir is much more than a litany of horrors; instead, it is an open-eyed, wide-hearted, and good-humored look at a life worth surviving.

Through a shifting narrative of text and photographs, Christman explores the intersection of image and memory and considers the ways photographs force us to rework our original memories. Darkroom is a page-turning and disturbing journey that begins with an older brother's near fatal burning and progresses through a counterculture childhood in which her free-spirited mother moves the family to an isolated mountaintop. The story advances into an adolescence of eating disorders and barely remembered sex, slams into a young adulthood of love, literature, drugs, death, and therapists, and ends soon after a beloved uncle bleeds to death in a federal prison while serving a ten-year sentence for growing marijuana.

Never sentimental, Jill Christman is brutally honest and surprisingly funny. She deftly blends narrative, quoted materials, her uncle's letters, and her father's photography to create a family saga that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating.

Author Biography

Jill Christman is the author of two memoirs, a forthcoming collection--If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2022)--and essays in magazines such as Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, and Iron Horse Literary Review. A 2020 NEA Fellow and senior editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, she teaches at Ball State University. Visit her at www.jillchristman.com and on Twitter @jill_christman.

Number of Pages: 264
Dimensions: 0.67 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: July 01, 2011
ISBN9780820341743
Author Jill Christman
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
GenreBiography and Relationships
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages264
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor of River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative and Beautiful Things.

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