Publishing made Personal

Don’t Call Me That is a coming-of-age memoir about growing up inside a family history where love and violence, loyalty and betrayal, truth and invention were rarely easy to separate. Moving between the strange, half-wild world of a childhood in the Georgia woods and the death that forces an adult daughter to begin excavating everything she thought she understood, Lucky Rose reconstructs a family story told differently depending on who was doing the telling. This is not a memoir about discovering that everything you were told was a lie. It is about discovering that several contradictory things can be true at once. Darkly funny, intimate, and unwilling to sand down the uncomfortable edges, Don’t Call Me That is a story about memory, inheritance, chosen family, and what happens when you finally become old enough to interrogate the mythology of your own childhood.