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Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the recently published novels, One Brilliant Flame, and Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller.
Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the recently published novels, One Brilliant Flame, and Flight Risk, a finalist for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary.

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The Truth Bookchronicles the childhood of the Wabash English professor and her brother, Tony: their upbringing among Jehovah’s Witnesses; the emotional, physical, and sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of their stepfather; and her adopted mother’s acquiescence to her husband’s brutality.

But the book opens with stories Castro’s birth mother told her after the writer found her several years ago. It resurrects a flawed but loving father, whose suicide was a catalyst for the book. In telling her story, Castro redeems the relationships that matter most to her, breaks the chains of shame that shackled her parents, and dares to wear her "history on her sleeve, come what may," with a courage that inspires.

As reviewer Caroline Leavitt wrote in The Boston Globe, "Gorgeous, disturbing, and grippingly alive, Castro's book offers the kind of hope her background never supplied."

Thebook is beingadopted as a text in college courses nationwide, and Castro is donating a portion of her earnings to Childhelp USA, a national nonprofit organization dedic

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Joy Castro

Author and academic

Joy Castro^[1] is the award-winning author of the recently published novels, One Brilliant Flame,^[2] and Flight Risk,^[3] a finalist^[4] for a 2022 International Thriller Award; the post-Katrina New Orleans literary thrillers Hell or High Water,^[5] which received the Nebraska Book Award, and Nearer Home,^[6] which have been published in France by Gallimard's historic Série Noire; the story collection How Winter Began;^[7] the memoir The Truth Book;^[8] and the essay collection Island of Bones,^[9] which received the International Latino Book Award. She is also editor of the craft anthology Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family^[10] and the founding series editor of Machete,^[11] a series in innovative literary nonfiction at The Ohio State University Press. She served as the guest judge of CRAFT's first Creative Nonfiction Award,^[12] and her work has appeared in venues including Poets

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Reclaiming Our Roots: A Conversation with Joy Castro

I begin my fiction workshops with a question: “Who gets to tell this story?” I want my students to consider an author’s intention and their own in the creative process. My hope is that once they are aware of their reasons for writing, and can articulate them, they’ll be more deliberate in the ways they approach each subsequent draft of their work, employing writing tools worthy of their projects. It’s not a simple task. But a story deserves rigor and intellect. And an artist’s life should mean as much as their work.

I found this intention-meeting-action exemplified in Joy Castro’s new book, Flight Risk (Lake Union). Protagonist Isabel Morales, a successful sculptor, is accustomed to creating art and life from nothing, but it’s her sudden reckoning with family secrets following her estranged mother’s death that forces her to return to her past before moving forward in her future. Joy Castro invites readers to take Isabel’s hand through the nuance of poverty and the Latina experience in West Virginia, and through this compassi