![]() ![]() The part where T pulls back the curtain and sees her dead grandmother’s body…”Īll through this book, it is never clear what is truth and what is fiction. She says, “If this were fiction, we would’ve gotten to this part by now. The memoir returns us to Grandma’s death bed where T must finally confront what is real and what is fiction. We follow T to prom night, to college, to motherhood and beyond, at one point exploring her family roots through a DNA analysis that reveals more than a few surprises. The book takes its title from the opening story in which the character we later come to know as “T” is taught by her grandmother how a young lady is supposed to sit in Grandma’s house, a home filled with a constant parade of older men, most fueled by alcohol. ![]() I was struck by the way the story builds from chapter to chapter, some fictional, others not, showing us how one young girl became a woman while growing up in a world that might have broken a weaker soul. Her collection of stories and essays is unique in the way it combines fiction and non-fiction to create a true memoir. ![]() Coleman has a strong engaging voice with important things to say. Local publisher Mason Jar Press of Baltimore has just published the debut collection, How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays, by Tyrese Coleman, a writer based in the Washington, D.C., area. This book review is written by Raima Larter, a Little Patuxent Review fiction reader. ![]()
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