![]() “I will confess that in the interest of narrative I secretly hoped I’d find a payload of southern gothic: deceit and scandal, alcoholism, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land, abandonments, blow jobs, suicides, hidden addictions, the tragically early death of a beautiful bride, racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of a prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder. Addressing what Mann thought she might find in an attic full of family history that is the basis of one thread that runs through the story, she wrote: Surprise: The last paragraphs of the prologue grabbed my interest immediately. ![]() I began the book more out of a sense of guilt about not relishing his gift more than anything else ![]() I wasn’t particularly interested in reading Sally Mann’s autobiography, Hold Still, but took it up a few weeks after my husband bought it for me as a surprise. Ellen Boughn reviews ‘HOLD STILL’, the photo memoir of the summer, if not the year. ![]()
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