"Darkroom: A Family Exposure" is Jill Christman's gripping, funny,
and wise account of her first thirty years. Although her story runs
the gamut of dramatic life events, including childhood sexual
abuse, accidental death, and psychological trauma, Christman's
poignant memoir is much more than a litany of horrors; instead, it
is an open-eyed, wide-hearted, and good-humored look at a life
worth surviving.
Through a shifting narrative of text and photographs, Christman
explores the intersection of image and memory and considers the
ways photographs force us to rework our original memories.
"Darkroom" is a page-turning and disturbing journey that begins
with an older brother's near fatal burning and progresses through a
counterculture childhood in which her free-spirited mother moves
the family to an isolated mountaintop. The story advances into an
adolescence of eating disorders and barely remembered sex, slams
into a young adulthood of love, literature, drugs, death, and
therapists, and ends soon after a beloved uncle bleeds to death in
a federal prison while serving a ten-year sentence for growing
marijuana.
Never sentimental, Jill Christman is brutally honest and
surprisingly funny. She deftly blends narrative, quoted materials,
her uncle's letters, and her father's photography to create a
family saga that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating.
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