Runaway
- Author Erin Keane
- Narrator Erin Keane
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 20 September 2022
- Run Time 6 hours and 14 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Feminism and feminist theory, Memoirs, Popular culture.
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What to expect
From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon, comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell.
In 1970, Erin Keane’s mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six.
Through a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and poetic reimagining, Keane pieces together the true story of her mother’s teenage years, questioning almost everything she’s been told about her parents and their relationship. Along the way, she also considers how pop culture has kept similar narratives alive in her. At stake are some of the most profound questions we can ask ourselves: What’s true? What gets remembered? Who gets to tell the stories that make us who we are?
Whether it’s talking about painful family history, #MeToo, Star Wars, true crime forensics, or The Gilmore Girls, Runaway is an unforgettable look at all the different ways the stories we tell—both personal and pop cultural—create us.
Critics Review
“Fascinating…Memoirs this smart and absorbing don’t comes around all the time.”
“Her memoir expands beyond the personal to cast that same piercing gaze on cultural myths, from the obsession with nymphets to the demonization of runaways.”
“Who gets labeled a ‘missing kid’ and who a ‘runaway’?…[Keane] challenges readers to examine the gendered dismissal of those we call runaways.”
“This eagle-eyed inquiry hits the mark.”
“Analyzes her mother’s past as a runaway in the context of popular culture’s tendency to prioritize men’s stories over those of women.”
“Keane brings critical shrewdness to the vision-obscuring status quo of patriarchy.”
“I’m not able to pin down my own life in essays as clear and beautiful as Erin Keane has here. But reading Runaway time and again will be the learning and motivation I need. That we all do.”
“Keane is a brilliant storyteller, who bravely walks us through her beautifully complicated family dynamic, with prose that is razor sharp, informative, and powerful enough to make us reexamine ourselves and everything we subscribe to. I highly recommend.”
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