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Lisa Norris
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I learned to read with Navy warships just a few blocks from my family's quarters on the base in Philadelphia, then moved to the Philippines just before the Vietnam War, where I played inside a barbed wire-enclosed military compound near Quezon City while American Bandstand, Combat! and The Flintstones appeared in black and white on our family's television, and a TV personality called Uncle Bo...
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Women Who Sleep With Animals
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2011
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Toy Guns: Stories
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Political Vultures
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A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder
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“What does it mean, this notion of...reading? ...it returns us to a reckoning with time. In the midst of a book, we have no choice but to be patient, to take each thing in its moment, to let the narrative prevail. Even more, we are reminded of all we need to savor--this instant, this scene, this line. We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little, by stepping back from the noise, the tumult, to discover our reflections in another mind. As we do, we join a broader conversation, by which we both transcend ourselves and are enlarged.”
― David L. Ulin
― David L. Ulin
