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Kelly McMasters
The Ethics of Writing Hard Things in Family Memoir
Kelly McMasters Wonders What is Enough When Revealing Hard Truths
By
Kelly McMasters
| May 31, 2023
Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage
“And so, I kept pumping the bellows, trying to keep the fire between us burning.”
By
Kelly McMasters
| May 9, 2023
Finding Home: On the Journey Back to Writing as a Single Mother
Kelly McMasters: “My own writing, meanwhile, was like a distant song.”
By
Kelly McMasters
| March 17, 2021
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