See Dick Run : Truth, Silence, and Reconciliation in the Face of Intergenerational Trauma

Abstract

The author describes the process of constructing a longform journalistic narrative of a family story: how her great grandfather left his wife for another woman and how that effected the family, particularly the author’s grandfather. She describes the process: decisions about how to construct the narrative, how to use dialogue, how to ask questions, what documentary evidence to seek and how to use it.