{"id":178474,"date":"2021-11-17T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=178474"},"modified":"2021-11-17T08:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T13:34:11","slug":"uconn-magazine-and-now-i-spill-the-uconn-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2021\/11\/uconn-magazine-and-now-i-spill-the-uconn-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: And Now I Spill the UConn Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her family never talked about it. But when\u00a0Margaret Kimball \u201906 (SFA)\u00a0was four, her mother attempted suicide on Mother\u2019s Day while the rest of the family was at church. They were still not talking when, during Kimball\u2019s senior year of high school, her mother\u2019s bipolar disorder kept her in the hospital for a couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Kimball is talking \u2014 and drawing \u2014 now in \u201cAnd Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir,\u201d which has the literary world talking, too.\u00a0<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>\u00a0calls the book \u201criveting,\u201d<em>\u00a0Library Journal<\/em>\u00a0says \u201cthoroughly brilliant,\u201d and\u00a0<em>Kirkus<\/em>\u00a0is \u201ceager for a successor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To create the graphic memoir, Kimball had to investigate her own childhood as if it belonged to someone else. She interviewed her family and combed through photos, albums, and old diaries to understand and relay the nuances of living in a home where the specter of mental illness hovers over everything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2021\/10\/14\/and-now-i-spill-the-uconn-secrets\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Private Map of UConn in the Mid-2000s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":178476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,1711,2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1902],"class_list":["post-178474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts-culture","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 08:44:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179350,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178474\/revisions\/179350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/178476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178474"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=178474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=178474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}