Wife | Daughter | Self
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“Kephart deftly and succinctly captures entire expanses of human experience…Kephart’s essays are a joy to read as they reveal a self-aware writer at work and offer new perspectives on how we can experience life.”
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Wife | Daughter | Self investigates identity and the writing life through the perspective of one of the nation's top memoir teachers and critics.
Curiously, inventively, Beth Kephart reflects on the iterative, composite self in her new memoir-traveling to lakes and rivers, New Mexico and Mexico, the icy waters of Alaska and a hot-air balloon launch in search of understanding. She is accompanied, often, by her Salvadoran-artist husband. She spends time, a lot of time, with her widowed father. As she looks at them she ponders herself and comes to terms with the person she is still becoming. At once sweeping and intimate, Wife | Daughter | Self is a memoir built of interlocking essays by an acclaimed author, teacher, and critic.
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