A review by jaclyncrupi
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn Shapland

4.0

Being deeply interested in projects that queer the archives and reclaim narratives, this book was a shot to my veins and set my brain on fire. Biographers and history sought to erase McCullers’s chronic illness and her love of women but Shapland inserted herself and her own experience of her sexuality and with POTS into the narrative and the archive to shine a light on what is undeniable. This is genre-defying narrative non-fiction of the highest order. I want someone to do exactly this with Dorothy Porter (different I know as she wasn’t closeted but still).