Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying

Choice Choy

Trauma has a way of generating good books, even from non-writers. There are stacks of stories about prison life – think of the letters of Jack Abbott, the guy championed by Norman Mailer – or childhood sexual abuse, all powerful purely because of their content.

But when a gifted writer takes on personal pain, a different kind of magic happens. That’s why the definitive memoir of sexual abuse is Sylvia Fraser’s My Father’s House. And it’s why Wayson Choy’s Not Yet, about his encounter with near-death, is so powerful. Read more

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