Little Scar Stories: A Memoir by Barbara Davis will soon be available...

All the stories we didn’t tell our mothers. In this lively, sprawling memoir, Barbara Davis traces the fate of three friends. Scar Stories begins with the author’s adolescence on Puget Sound in the 1960s and successfully captures the excitement of the ensuing restless decades. The author also explores the ongoing impacts of those years—including how mutual recognition and incomprehension haunt our relationships. The book is enhanced by dozens of photographs and a line drawing in each chapter.

What People Are Saying

Kathleen Cain | Writer, Seattle

“Most people’s lives are filled with interesting people. The problem is that most people don’t realize it. Lucky for us, Barbara Davis does. She writes about the charming scoundrels and tragic geniuses in her life with compassion, humor, and skill. This book is an absolute joy to read. I wish my life had been an interesting as hers. Or maybe it was, and I just failed to notice it.”

Keith Eisner | Actor, author, educator

“Spellbinding. Barbara Davis’s swift and exquisite prose commands our total attention. In the process of illuminating the spells we cast on each other, Little Scar Stories offers heart-singeing beauty and pain. Ultimately, this memoir reminds us of how we not only survive our scars, but transcend them.”

Elizabeth Lord | Host & co-producer of StoryOly

“Little Scar Stories is absolutely compelling reading. Barbara Davis focuses on three people and dives all the way into those relationships, meanwhile providing a satisfying portrait of the time period and issues that shaped her. Her writing transforms the mundane into the sacred.”