Introduction : mapping hope / Joy Castro -- Chewing band-aids : one memoirist's take on the telling of family secrets / Jill Christman -- Sally could delete whatever she wanted / Paul Austin -- Case by case : when it comes to family you still have to talk to / Mimi Schwartz -- At its center / Paul Lisicky -- Day I cried at Starbucks / Ruth Behar -- Memory lessons / Rigoberto González -- Part I can't tell you / Ariel Gore -- What the little old ladies feel : how I told my mother about my memoir / Alison Bechdel -- Truths we could live with / Robin Hemley -- Writing the black family home / Faith Adiele -- Deeper end of the quarry : fiction, nonfiction, and the family dilemma / Dinty W. Moore -- Mama's voices / Susan Olding -- Living in someone else's closet / Susan Ito -- True story / Karen Salyer McElmurray -- I might be famous / Ralph James Savarese -- A spell against sorrow : writing my father in / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Things we don't talk about / Aaron Raz Link -- You can't burn everything / Allison Hedge Coke -- Done with grief : the memoirist's illusion / Sandra Scofield -- Seed book / Stephanie Elizondo Griest -- Calling back / Lorraine M. López -- Like rain on dust / Richard Hoffman -- Bad Asian daughter / Bich Minh Nguyen -- Your mother should know / Sue William Silverman -- Writing about family / Heather Sellers.