I think there's definitely a readership. A very underserved readership. (In traditionally published fiction, not in fanfic.)
Something else that I find interesting is that even trauma/mental illness memoirs also often skip or radically shorten the healing, so you get a similar phenomena of 30 chapters of trauma concluding in "and then I realized I had to get help," and then one chapter or an epilogue of "It was a rocky road but now I'm more-or-less OK."
I want to see the rocky road!
Here's where you do see it: memoirs of grief. They tend to start with the death, and be entirely about the journey through it.
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Date: 2014-06-13 06:29 pm (UTC)Something else that I find interesting is that even trauma/mental illness memoirs also often skip or radically shorten the healing, so you get a similar phenomena of 30 chapters of trauma concluding in "and then I realized I had to get help," and then one chapter or an epilogue of "It was a rocky road but now I'm more-or-less OK."
I want to see the rocky road!
Here's where you do see it: memoirs of grief. They tend to start with the death, and be entirely about the journey through it.