'In The Country Of Women' Honors The Strength And Resilience Of Six Generations
While Susan Straight reflects on far more than her own upbringing in her memoir, she brings her trademark lyricism and a significant dose of humility to these pieces of the book.
From the first words of In the Country of Women, before the first chapter, before the prologue, before even the epigraph, Susan Straight makes it clear in her author's note that she is using "memoir" in the fullest sense of the word.
The book's opening is almost an invitation to go back to the original meaning of the term, which comes to us from the Latin, by way of the Middle French, , meaning memory. When Straight declares that "Memory is a sixth sense, oris her story — but it is also a chronicle honoring the strength and resilience of six generations of women.
