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Executrix

Executrix

Perham, Brittany
Strayed, Cheryl

Paperback

Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Biographies General

Publisher Price: $26.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 15, 2026

ISBN10: 0820377783
ISBN13: 9780820377780
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
Executrix begins with a mystery: Why would the author's father, from whom she had been estranged for more than a decade, change his will in the weeks before his death to make her the executor of his estate? Executrix charts the process of sorting out the business of this indebted estate using the language of real estate foreclosure, income tax audits, and medical records. The executor transforms the disjointed details of a life into a tidy financial narrative that meets the demands of claimants; the writer transforms the disjointed details of a life into a story that meets the demands of memory. Through this twin accounting, Perham asks the big questions: What are the implications of being the child of an alcoholic? How do we reconcile memories that are fragmented, elided, or nonexistent? And what does it mean to write true nonfiction? With surprising humor, real tenderness, and, above all, a daring formal inventiveness, Executrix launches a critical investigation into family stories and secrets, and the genre of memoir itself.

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