# Sarah Moss on memory and meaning-making

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Podcast: [The Clearing with Katherine May](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-clearing-with-katherine-may-1253345)
Published: 2024-11-16T01:00:44+00:00
Episode link: https://katherinemay.substack.com/
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## Resource

Recently, Katherine interviewed Sarah Moss about her incredible new memoir, My Good Bright Wolf , an account of growing up as a difficult girl in a difficult family, and how this ultimately led to her eating disorder. Throughout the book, she repeatedly argues against herself. A voice rises up in the text and says, What are you trying to claim here? That’s not how it happened! Why can’t you tell the truth?  The point she makes is that we are unsteady in our remembering. We’re often incredibly uncertain, not just about the content of our memories, but also what they represent. We're unsure when the meaning-making took place. Was it something that arose at the point that those events happened? Or was it something we constructed far later in adulthood? And if so, what purpose did they serve?  Links from the episode: Sarah Moss' book, My Good Bright Wolf Katherine's book, Enchantment, is available now: US/CAN and UK Join Katherine's Substack Find show notes and transcripts for every episode by visiting Katherine's website . Follow Katherine on Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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