Truth Has a Different Shape

A Memoir

“This memoir unwinds one woman’s reckoning with her family … The pain of a child dealing with loss is palpable. Yet, as years progress, in Truth Has a Different Shape, we follow O’Driscoll as she discovers how to heal herself.”

— Buzzfeed

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About Me

I’m an author, speaker, and the founder of the SELF Project. My work explores the often challenging dynamics of parents and children. My latest book, Truth Has a Different Shape, is a memoir about growing up in the ’70s and ’80s as a caretaker-type in a family torn by divorce and the loss of a child and how that shaped my own parenting, and ultimately my caregiving for my parents in their twilight years.

My work has appeared in a variety of places such as Ms. Magazine, Healthline, and The Seattle Times Education Lab Ignite Storytelling event, as well as several anthologies and other books.

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