A GOOD ENDING FOR BAD MEMORIES

by Vailes Shepperd

A Good Ending for Bad Memories is a multi-generational tale that follows the matriarchal lineage of a splintered woman with an irregular memory. Equal parts sprawling travelogue and family saga, A Good Ending is imbued with magical realism and Southern Gothic Americana. It is a fascinating study of the fragmented psyche of its central character and the ancestral trauma of racism and abuse on her children. 

Ultimately, this story is about the quest for wholeness and the reconstruction of memory to reclaim one's own narrative. A Good Ending for Bad Memories is preoccupied with the elusive, ghost-like nature of memory and its distant echoes across continents, personas, and generations.