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these towns I have come to know only by what leaves them, myself included. The
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
indelible
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
STILL, they dreamed.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
You are walking along Battersea Bridge. Leaning over the edge, the water choppy, the phone line clear, the words urgent, the language flimsy and insufficient, the feelings honest.
Caleb Azumah Nelson • Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021

My story isn’t about a car accident or a near-death experience. It’s about my friends standing in the place of my family when I need them most. That’s it.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
In place of explanation, memory.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
contrivance,
Elizabeth Gilbert • The Signature of All Things: A Novel
Beneath these giants, way down in the understory, her own body seems freakishly small, like one of those acorn-people she made in childhood.