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		<description><![CDATA[I love anecdotes that momentarily seem out of the main line of the story because they remind us that the world is a richly interconnected place, thick with story and meaning even over there in the margins.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your writing achieved that state that I enjoy: clear, compelling, easy to read, and yet it still evokes thought provoking, sometimes moving images and ideas. During your journey to acquire your language arts, can you think of any particular tip or advice that moved you along, that made your sentences clearer?]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Small presses, too, though, want to know how your book is like others that have gone before (and gone on to succeed), as well as how it's a new and exciting, one-of-a-kind thing.  It's a funny kind of challenge to describe your work in both terms.  But My Ruby Slippers does belong to a tradition of what I call memoirs of place--and I was able to place it in great company.  I think of works like Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Kathleen Norris's Dakota, or Joan Didion's Where I Was From.  Didion, by the way, is another great nonfiction writer who isn't worried about fitting the mold.  She thinks a lot on the page.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subtly, gently, and almost inevitably, she expands up to another level and asks how Kansas fits into the psychology of the entire nation. Her charter to make peace between these two parts of the country is extremely important to her. Having grown up on the Great Plains and then lived in Connecticut and San Francisco, she now needs to unify these parts of the country in order to find her own peace.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book demonstrates the power of persistence. By crafting the story until she got it right, Linda Joy Myers discovered amidst the wreckage of that little girl's childhood an intact human being, complete with courage, confidence, and dreams. Storytelling transformed her heartbreaking childhood into one stage in a much longer saga. Her suffering and then her healing provide both a tragedy and an inspiration about the wisdom a human can achieve in one life time.]]></description>
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