There is a lot of retrospection in the book - it is a memoir, after all - but it's also about looking to the future. ![]() It's about, "How do you end with gratitude? How do you end with grace?" Gaines says. She expressed the hope that readers can relate to some of the reoccurring themes - such as childhood insecurities shaping the way she approached life into adulthood and addressing the "things in your life that haven't been dealt with or healed properly" - or, that they would finish the book and say, I want to evaluate my own life, I want to journal, I want to write down my own story. This is something she stressed in discussing the book as well. That's what is unique about The Stories We Tell as a celebrity memoir: the "we." In each chapter, Gaines brings it back to the reader, to their own story. "I want to value other people's story in a way where they feel honored and respected." "This is my process and my journey," but "that's not the point," she says. "This isn't this big 'tell all,'" Gaines emphasizes. "Twenty years later, something told me to write again," she reveals of how The Stories We Tell came to be. There was something in me that said, 'write.'" She says the first book she ever wrote, which "no one will ever read," was when she moved to New York City in her early 20s and had this inkling. "There have been different periods of my life where I've had the instinct to write down, to look back. As someone who's always journaled, the original intent was really just to look back on the whirlwind last 10 years, Gaines explains. "I get excited about unearthing all these things to see what was once there," she says. She spoke about the process for her book, saying in some ways it's similar to working on an old house, uncovering the bones.
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