“Our tales do more than dismantle social standings and generate camaraderie and entertainment. They create a space for one's past, touching its flesh through memory and shedding a light that illuminates ourselves to ourselves and to others. Without those stories we're only half ourselves; without them that other half lurks inside like a shadow yearning for the sun.”
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Pluck: A memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist
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