Blog Post 8 Should a memoir be true?

In my mind, I think that a book should be 100% percent true to be a memoir. If they say it’s all true shouldn't it really be true? How can we trust that other 95% or 90% of the book is true when they are lying about parts of it? Like Frey said that he wasn’t involved in the killing of the girl with the train but it still affected him. So the difference between lying and the truth could be life or death. I don’t think that half-truths are okay eve if it is a good story, if its considered a memoir I want full truth, if I wanted to read a fiction book, I would have gone to the fiction section at the store. If one author thinks that they can bend the truth other will continue to do it and then books will all become fiction because people will bend the truth just get the book published. After Frey was turned away, he came back saying it was a true story to get the book to be published and sold. I think that we do need lines between genres. When I go to a book store I go to the fiction section because I like fiction and that’s what I continue to read and enjoy. I think that books should be labeled fiction and non-fiction because if you go to the store to buy a true story and its fiction, why isn’t it in that section? I think that it matters because everyone likes different types of books and if you enjoy true stories and are told this is a true story, but it’s not, you might feel ripped off.