A Year in Reading: Matthew Salesses
Only once in 2015 did I cry over a book, and I was surprised to find that it was during the scene in 'Americanah' that recreates Obama's election in 2008. With how far we have come, we have far to go.
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Seeing Myself: In Search of the Inciting Incident
The agent said my birth mother had left me under a nearby bridge. I was found with a note that said, "Give him to someone rich." A policeman gave me a name and took me to an orphanage, but the orphanage had recently burned down, so it, like my birth mother, was unrecoverable.
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