My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir

by Jenn Shapland

My lesbian hero disidentifying from womanhood? How could I process this?

was too nervous to remember their exact words, but Myles answered something along the lines of constant shifting, the ever new. This part I do remember. Eileen: “I’ve earned better words than ‘Miss.’”

it is clear that empathy is a choice a person makes, moment to moment, in how they approach other people. On the page and off.