“I could just be me,” she wrote in her book, “Rememberings.”

She released a memoir, Rememberings, in 2021.

She released a memoir, Rememberings, in 2021.

Her 2021 memoir, Rememberings, reclaimed her narrative.

O’Connor wrote in her memoir, “Rememberings,” that she felt a particular resonance with the lines, “All the flowers that you planted Mama/In the backyard/All died when you went away.”