Abby Letteri
Abby has a Masters in Creative Writing with Distinction from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), and is currently at work on a PhD in Creative Writing. Her Masters thesis, down they forgot: a memoir, was published by Lilith House Press in March 2021. Abby’s poetry, stories, reviews and essays have appeared in various publications in the US and New Zealand. She divides her time between a small farm on the Otaki River where she lives with dogs and horses, and a home in town with her filmmaker husband. Life without animals is unthinkable to Abby.
Genre:
- Adult Non-Fiction
- Autobiography / Memoir
Skills:
Branch:
Wellington
Location:
Wellington
Publications:
down they forgot
down they forgot: a memoir
by Abby Letteri
Published by Lilith House Press (Colorado USA)
7 April, 2021
ISBN: 978-1-7353387-4-3
down they forgot is a memoir of an American childhood and adolescence in the turbulence of the 1960s and 70s, a time of sweeping social and political discontent. Assassinations, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, drugs and dropping out all inform this haunting story about personal identity and the consequences of loneliness, despite the passionate and fleeting friendships of youth.
“down they forgot is a work of remarkable freshness. I admire the moral and ethical delicacy of the writing, which combines startling candour with this beautifully judged instinct to leave the mystery of personality in place. Abby favours fragments not just because memory seems to work like this but because the sort of hesitancy implied in the form is a great match for the psychology of this memorable family, where silence and looks create their own rich (and richly elusive) vocabulary.” —Damien Wilkins, International Institute of Modern Letters