Barbara Latinka on Her Memoir "Spells for Surviving a Haunted Childhood"
What if the magic you were waiting for was inside you all along?
This week we sit down with Barbara Latinka, author of the three-part memoir Spells for Surviving a Haunted Childhood. What began as journaling in trauma therapy became a trilogy of eerie, atmospheric novellas, with every chapter followed by a spell built from the sights, smells, and feelings of the story you just read. Barbara tells us why she left her narrator unnamed, how she wrote the entire manuscript through tears, and why she split her story into three parts to make it more accessible for trauma survivors.
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