“A Love/Hurt Relationship”

The Memoir My Dad Wouldn’t Write is a Radically honest conversation between a daughter and her dad. My dad has had an incredible life as a poet, activist, professor, and cultural worker. He wouldn’t write a memoir, so this series of conversations is partly that.

In a mere 72 hours after his mothers death, a 9 year old Eugene became the son of his grandmother, a devout Jehovah’s Witness in her mid sixties. And not only that, she was cruel, and sometimes physically abusive. In this episode my dad reflects on whether she was a protagonist or an antagonist in his story and how this “Hard hearted Hannah” shaped his childhood.

 

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