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The essay was published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 and in 2009 its format was stretched by Little, Brown and Company to fill 138 pages for a book publication. [1] A transcript of the speech circulated online as early as June 2005. [2] This is the only public speech Wallace ever gave outlining his outlook on life. [3]
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Stones in Water is a 1997 young adult novel written by Donna Jo Napoli. It is set during World War II and tells the story of two Italian boys, one of whom is Jewish, who are sent to a work camp. Their struggle to survive, hide the Jewish boy's ethnicity, and the defeat of one and escape of another is chronicled.
Lidia Yuknavitch (/ ˈ j uː k n ə v ɪ tʃ / YOOK-nə-vitch; [2] born June 18, 1963) [3] [4] is an American writer, teacher and editor based in Oregon.She is the author of the memoir The Chronology of Water, and the novels The Small Backs of Children, Dora: A Headcase, and The Book of Joan.
The Oregonian named The Chronology of Water one of the best books of 2011. It was recognized as one of that year's best memoirs by Flavorwire . The book was a finalist for the 2012 PEN Center Creative Nonfiction Award.
Water is set in 1938, when India was still under the colonial rule of the British, and when the marriage of children to older men was commonplace. Following Hindu tradition, when a man died, his widow would be forced to spend the rest of her life in a widow's ashram, an institution for widows to make amends for the sins from her previous life that supposedly caused her husband's death.
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Like Water is a young adult novel written by Rebecca Podos and published in 2017 by Balzer + Bray. The story, which was the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award , centers on Savannah Espinoza, a teenager from New Mexico who begins discovering more about her sexuality when she becomes enamored with a genderqueer teenager, called Leigh.