“I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced when I was eleven, and my father immediately married a woman with three children and was with her for five years. When they got divorced, he immediately married a woman with four children. In the meantime, my mother married a man who had seven children. So I was going from one family to another between the ages of eleven and eighteen.” MenFeelsYearsChildrenDifferentAgeMotherCultureThreeFatherParentFiveFourCollegeMarriedMajorsOur ChildrenSevenFive YearsDivorcedElevenAnthropologyEighteenDifferent Cultures Author:Lily King
“To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.” DifferentFeelingsCultureChildhoodMinesDifferent Families Author:Lily King
“Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part.” WritingCultureNovelHellLike YouHorribleGranted Author:Lily King
