Say You're One of Them - Marigrace Bannon

Say you’re one of them and your stuff gets published and you finally get an agent and the memoir comes out and it gets reviewed-good reviews, respectable as they say in the business. And you have a book tour, it’s modest and you read some of the funnier pieces in libraries, bookstores and reading groups. You save the tragic pieces for the arm chair readers. And you go to a few cities and lots of small towns in New Jersey since that’s where the book is set. And people from High School show up like you’re something to see. And your 9th grade English teacher is beaming in the front row of Books and Such, and you remember every time she gave a writing assignment, she called you Margaret Mitchell, because you started to run your pencil across the page at a ferocious pace. And for fictional purposes you wish her name was something more exotic than Mrs. Jones, but it isn’t. And you remember that her husband was in Graduate School at Princeton University and you remember her telling you not specifically how much she loved her husband only that she wished she had met him sooner. And in that class, Rob somebody with a British accent, handsome with blue eyes and dark curly hair got up to give his oral book review of Truman Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD and you know you love writing and wonder is it in my blood?