An around-the-world story of a terminated pregnancy, a friendship, and shame
In rural China, I began to learn about my great-grandfather, and why people might hate me because of him.
My grandfather had been arrested by the British colonial government. Why had he been there that day?
Project Wordsworth (Volume 2) is a storytelling laboratory at the Columbia Journalism School. In this latest version, we introduce The Memory Project, which takes as its inspiration this maxim from William Faulkner: Memory believes before knowing remembers...
Each of these stories begins with a memory. That memory is then examined, questioned, probed and dissected. Is what I recall what really happened? Where does this memory take me? Who was there? Who were they?
If you find a memory that evokes a memory of your own, we invite you to share it with the author...
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