Howdy, writers!
The process of being drawn into a new book is usually
a gradual one; it takes a few pages to get used to a writer's style and rhythms, his/her ideas and story direction.
But every so often I'll crack open a fresh new book, read the opening lines, and be
immediately yanked into the story. This happened to me last week with Harry Crews' memoir A Childhood: The Biography of a Place.
Get a load of this opening line:
"My first memory is of a time ten years before I was born, and the memory takes place where I have never been and involves my daddy whom I
never knew."
Ummm, what? And it doesn't get any less interesting from there.
Read the book's opening paragraph, included in the post, and then write your response in the comments.
Bonus points if you correctly guess "what was wrong" with Harry's dad! If you can do that without cheating, I will give you a well-earned round of applause, clap clap clap.
