What’s Your Story?

Laura van den Berg talks with Salon about writing her first novel, Find Me, and the connection between memory and storytelling:

I think memory and storytelling rise from a similar impulse. Part of the drive behind the shaping and recalling of memories is a desire to self-narrate: We need our story, our history, our trajectory through life to make some kind of sense, to have a comprehensible shape. Memory is the story we tell ourselves about ourselves.