Description

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Award-winning author David Homel mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in these mediations on his youth in Chicago, his education, and the influences that led to his career as a writer.

About the Author

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David Homel is the award-winning author of nine novels and five works of fiction for younger readers, the latter co-authored with Marie-Louise Gay. In 2021, he ventured into the field of the personal essay with the memoir Lunging into the Underbrush: A Life Lived Backward (LLP 2021), which--part medical memoir and part speculation about the love life of older women and men--led Homel to return to the slippery field of self-discovery and the remodeling of the past. This compelling new book is a meditation about one writer's education through a series of essays mixing memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe.