This book explores the best way to write your memoir with grace if you have to tackle difficult or delicate subjects. There are chapters about family, children, spouses, and exes. There is a whole chapter just for writing about sex, drugs, and addiction. There are chapters about revealing secrets and how to not get sued for libel. The main focus is on how to write about awful things like abuse and divorce and cheating.

Since I don't have any horrible secrets to write about, this book wasn't helpful for me. It is well-written, but I didn't care about the excerpts from memoirs at the end of each chapter. I read some of the beginning, mostly skimmed over some of the first chapters, then completely skipped most of the middle, and read some more at the end. Most of the book doesn't apply to me at all.