Beronda Montgomery on Memoir as Testimony

Podcast: Memoir Nation · Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

Opublikowano: 2026-06-22

This week’s show is a nuanced exploration of the various and creative ways memoir can be an exploration of identity, culture, and history, and how in unearthing our own stories, we can discover so much about the world around us. Guest Beronda Montgomery has written a thoughtful and “thinking” memoir that has us ruminating on trees, legacy, ancestors, and who gets and is denied credit in our society. We learned so much from reading this book, and gained so much from being in conversation with Beronda. In the book trend this week, we talk about shorter books—the financia...