Week Seven Prompt

               In his article “5 Hoax Memoirs Still Worth Reading,” Jeff Somers explains why he thinks each of the memoirs he discusses still has value despite being at least partially fabricated (Somers, 2017). I think the concept that a memoir could still be valuable reading material even if it is not true is an interesting one. I’m not sure I would personally be interested in reading a contemporary memoir that had been fabricated, but I think reading a book like Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks that Somers explains reflected the fears of suburban parents during the time period it was written (Somers, 2017) could be worth reading more as a “relic” from its time period and a look into how one group of people (those parents) perceived the time period in which they were living, rather than as an actual memoir. I think the more distant in the past the fabricated memoir had been written, the more likely I would be to be interested in reading it for the sake of gaining insight into the time period/culture/issues that it might reflect despite being untrue.

Works Cited

Somers, J. (2017). 5 Hoax Memoirs Still Worth Reading. Retrieved from Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/5-hoax-memoirs-still-worth-reading/