Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann

NOTE: We will meet in person as well as having the virtual option for this gathering. Bring your own beverage, snacks, and lawn chair to meet with us at Greenwood Park at 4500 Grand Ave. Des Moines, if weather permits. Our B plan will be my house at 1107 45th if it rains.

There is also a virtual option with a zoom link available. Please email me sherry@storiedgifts.com for the link!

Here is a description of the book.
A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann.

In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her.

Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land... racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."

In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the pause-resisting drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.