One of the class discussions at the life writing class I took was how people react to memoir. How they react to seeing themselves portrayed in memoir?
Often their recollection is different, which is natural, but sometimes the people that populate your memoir feel affronted.
Kephart deals with this early on, "Its obvious, isn't it? Memoir making is a hazardous business. People are involved. Their feelings. Their reputations. Their relationships to you..."
