Suzanne Strempek Shea interviews Melanie Brooks Sitting in summer shorts while reading Melanie Brooks’ heart-enveloping memoir A Hard Silence: One daughter remaps family, grief and faith when HIV/AIDS changes it all, I was reminded that the best memoirists’ long treks through the land of memory often require tactical gear. A Hard Silence details with documentarians’ […]

Hard Silences, Hard Stories: A Memoirist’s Difficult Journey