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Mom and Dad will hate me: the ethics of writing about family in memoir-fiction

Zachary SniderEnglish and Media Studies, Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 98-105 | Received 15 Jul 2016, Accepted 07 Oct 2016, Published online: 18 Nov 2016

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