TELLING LIVES by Faye Sholiton
Ruth Garver, an 80-year-old widow, asks her daughter, Geri, to proofread her secretly written memoir, hoping she'll fix any spelling or punctuation errors. Geri, a copy editor, is drawn instead to editing her mother's life, as the manuscript glosses over the painful episodes in the family lore. Geri's daughter, Rachel, an aspiring playwright, is eager to mine these stories - as she perceives them...
Ruth Garver, an 80-year-old widow, asks her daughter, Geri, to proofread her secretly written memoir, hoping she'll fix any spelling or punctuation errors. Geri, a copy editor, is drawn instead to editing her mother's life, as the manuscript glosses over the painful episodes in the family lore. Geri's daughter, Rachel, an aspiring playwright, is eager to mine these stories - as she perceives them - for her dark comedies. Over the course of a weekend, the three women discover the truth about memory: it is not only imperfect, it hangs on by a thread.