RaveAutostraddle\"\'What is the precise evidence for love?\' Shapland asks in her stunning, full-length nonfiction debut...Throughout her riveting and tender investigation into this question, Shapland travels the country chasing down letters, photographs, and objects in order to uncover the truth about the love life of an oft-overlooked titan of American fiction ... This book will change the way you think about the truth. It’s about McCullers, yes, but also about how one builds a biography ... Shapland possesses the perfect storm of talents to push McCullers’s love life, and beautiful writing, into the light of this century during a moment when we need all the queer heroes we can get. In My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, we regain one hero, and discover another: McCullers and Shapland, respectively. I recommend adding both of these women to your 2020 reading lists.\
