"I'm sorry. An your wites, ok, yes, she, she's ok now. And thank you," he says to his wife and daughter. "You're lucky, Soyou're lucky that you got vaccinated." The book is a long essay on scribbling in the margins of memoirs. It was written as an admonition for beginning writers who are too attached to their own experiences to be able to deal with them without vomiting it onto the page.

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