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“I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.”

Stories Used Identity Who I Am Used To Be Versus

Author:Seth Gordon

“Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author’s journey to reclaim—and celebrate—that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.”

Children Book Stories Mother Found Lost Journey Cry Identity Dare Memoir Celebrate Remarkable Primal Candid Mother And Child Lost And Found

Author:Mira Bartok

“This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.”

Thinking Stories Literature Loss Identity Framework

Book:The Educated Imagination

Source: The Educated Imagination

“The myth of Canada, its hidden story, is of a contemplative country, a place of inwardness, where people can question the idea of nationhood and ponder what values we wish to see expressed and achieved, and what solitudes of identity and reverie we wish to preserve.”

People Ideas Country Stories Values Wish Identity Solitude Myth Preserves Canada Pondering Contemplative Reverie

Author:B. W. Powe

“Talk about impersonating an identity, about locking into a role, about irony; I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it.”

War Stories Courses Roles Heard Identity Irony Covered

Book:Dispatches

Source: Dispatches

“The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect Kristiana Kahakauwila's intimate but expansive vision of a Hawai'i forged from the collisions of past and present, here and there. Her protagonists are as richly distinctive as the pidgin they speak, and yet each struggles profoundly with identity-that negotiation between ourselves and the world, which is at once Hawaiian, American, universally and compellingly human.”

“To what or whom does Lizzie Harris direct the imperative title of her startling first book, Stop Wanting? To the reader, the narrator, to desire itself, or to lack? This is a work of complexly, ambiguously layered narratives and identities. The opening poem asserts I want to say what happened / but am suspicious of stories. These lines become an ars poetica for the whole of this painful and exceptional collection in which the unspeakable is stubbornly confronted by a searing eloquence. This is a commanding debut.”