read for people who read memoirs come at a little different than a lot conventional memoirs, whichve tend to be written mostly from memory.ely fr my books say but partiallyom frm memory, but largely from a year and a half of reporting about what happened. you know, that is what i was trained to do as a professional, to a report. and after trying to write for a couple of weeks just from memory, i decided that he really needed to report the story and that's what they did in the boow is really sort of takes you through what i thoughtne i knew about my family and my parents i and whatever in the course of reporting.from t beg so i'm going to start by reading a brief excerpt from the beginning of the book that willo tell you a little bit about who my parents were and how theyhowy met. and and then i'll talk a little bit about what happened afterwards.y growing up, i was took for. granted that it was my mother who was first attracted to my father. th after all, he was the exotic one, the gregarious one, the charm machine.as she was the shy one, the one who stuttered so badly as a childert