Why the memoir told in stories is having its moment

There is a particular kind of book taking up more and more room on the shelves this year. It isn’t the doorstop autobiography that marches from birth to the present in strict order. It isn’t the single dramatic confession stretched thin across three hundred pages either. It is the memoir told in stories, a life delivered in pieces, each one able to stand on its own, that quietly adds up to something bigger once you have sat with the whole.