Rachel Manley has spent a lifetime turning memory into art.
An acclaimed author, poet, and Governor General’s Award winner for Drumblair, Rachel joins me for a deeply reflective conversation about childhood, inheritance, family mythology, and the complicated act of writing a memoir.
Together, we explore what it means to revisit the past through language, not only to remember, but to understand. Rachel speaks candidly about growing up within a remarkable and significant family at pivotal time in Jamaica’s history, the emotional terrain of memoir writing, and the tension between truth, privacy, storytelling, and identity.
This episode is ultimately about the stories that shape us: the ones we inherit, the ones we resist, and the ones we finally choose to tell.
A conversation about memory, art, family, and the quiet courage of looking backward in order to move forward.
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