Views from the Edge: An Autobiomythography

by Diana Wallace

Two decades of essays reflecting on the mythic structures of life: formed in childhood and explored throughout the journey of adulthood.

166 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Diana Wallace is a native New Yorker who is a writer and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature, and has self-published four books. For more information about Diana Wallace, please visit her website www.dianawallacebooks.com

Reviews

[Eva · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed reading this (semi?) memoir by a friend. It's hard to capture in mere kindle highlights, but here are a few moments that I enjoyed:

Once Jeannie told me, and I’m not sure why (she may have experienced a lapse of adult indiscretion, assuming that I either wouldn’t understand or would probably forget), that every morning she would wake up twenty minutes before Chuck, brush her teeth, wash her face, tie a ribbon in her hair, put on some make-up and get back into bed. Are there still women who do this?
- location 263

we were a camera happy family, secure in the belief of our own beauty and importance
- location 418

when I sent my brother an email containing this dream [about finding our dead father alive, just in a new home], he wrote back only a single line: “What was the address?” And I felt my heart cave in all over again.
- location 1797