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Interview: Tracy McMillan, author of I Love You and I’m Leaving You Anyway

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

“Memoirs, like screenplays, need to be about core relationships. Every woman has a father who has affected her relationships with men. Maybe mine’s the extreme-sports version, but every girl can relate.”
Consider the raw material of Tracy McMillan’s life: black absentee father (a jailed, drug-dealing pimp); white absentee mother (a crazy addict); white difficult stepmother-figure; foster [...]

 
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