| This memoir is as much about those miraculous rebirths as it is about what is lost. |
| More than just anecdotage, his meandering memoir evokes an innocent time in New Zealand. |
| His own lost mother makes a cameo appearance in the memoir as a dying woman in Majdanek. |
| Hermite had a kind of positive hatred of geometry and once curiously reproached me with having made a geometrical memoir. |
| Throughout his manias, Berhman obsessively recorded everything he did and he relied on those notes to create this detailed memoir. |
| Part of the problem stems from the book's function as a memoir of the author's personal quest to discover whether her father was a Klansman. |
