Sara Mansfield Taber

Advance Praise for Sara Taber's forthcoming memoir...
The sensory and emotional detail of this memoir is as delicately wrought as bone china, yet saved from fragility by Sara Taber’s uncompromising journey deeper and deeper inward with every page...a beautiful, mysterious, and unexpectedly suspenseful story of the struggle to find a place in the world.

-William O’Sullivan, features editor, The Washingtonian Magazine


Sara Mansfield Taber has worked magic with this intoxicating memoir of her exotic childhood. With a child’s innocence and sensitivity, Sara composes her family’s haunting story, stroke by exquisitely beautiful stroke. This vibrant family portrait of love and heart-ache also reveals much about America—our passion, confusion, contradictions, and especially, the tragedy we bring upon the world despite our very best intentions.

-Mary Stucky,National Public Radio

Sara Mansfield Taber is a writer of creative nonfiction: essay, memoir, and literary journalism. A long-time teacher, she offers writing classes in the Washington D.C. area and around the country. Sara Taber is also an experienced editor. She provides writers with a range of services, from basic editing, to book shaping and book proposal design. She also offers structure and coaching to help writers get their work done.

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