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Speak, Hands


a meditation on memory
and the unconscious

by Lillian Moats

ISBN: 0-9669576-2-8
LCCN: 2005901471
Category: Creative non-fiction/ Memoir
Published 2006
Hardcover / 184 pages/ $20.00 - ORDER

This daring new literary work defies the conventions of memoir by questioning the very nature of memory and the traditional autonomous subject.  Combining prose, poetry, psychology, and philosophy, Speak, Hands conveys an extraordinary personal struggle that could not have been told with common literary devices...(Read More)



Legacy of Shadows


by Lillian Moats


ISBN: 0-9669576-0-1
LCCN: 98-96937
Category: Fictionalized Memoir
Published 1999
Hardcover / 192 pages/ $18.00 - ORDER

None of us is unaffected by the dreams and failures of our ancestors. In events played out before we are born, our stories have already begun.

Legacy of Shadows traces the lives of three women whose stories indelibly blend into one during the span of three generations. Powerful and poetic, the story evolved from the author’s exploration into the mysterious impact of family history on her own psychology...(read more)


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Legacy of Shadows

“This book will hold its readers close and tight, will teach them its remarkable, affecting and important lesson: that experiences live and last over a family’s generations as memories that shape hearts and minds.”

Robert Coles, M.D., Research Psychiatrist, Harvard University Health Services.Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Moral Life of Children.
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