Rich Benjamin on Writing a Memoir Centering Events That Transpired Before You Were Born

Podcast: Memoir Nation · Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

Opublikowano: 2026-04-13

How do you get into a story that centers events you don’t remember because you weren’t alive to witness them? That’s what we’re covering today in an episode that reaches into considerations of intergenerational trauma, and how even what’s not said gets transmitted from one generation to the next. Author Rich Benjamin shares with us the story of his family’s tumultuous past in Haiti, and its impact on his grandfather, who never knew, and his mother, who chose silence over disclosure. Rich speaks about research, about how it can be easier to write “third-hand” ab...