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Oct 3Liked by Beth Kephart

lovely to see the memoirs that grow into you and others. I have read Alice Koller's Stations of Solitude and now will read her memoir thanks to Char. I just ordered Road Song and will take it with me on my two weeks of road travel in Europe. But I will see you, Beth, on Saturday for the Juncture workshop on Place!

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Oct 3Liked by Beth Kephart

Uma, People last Saturday was so out of the ordinary and inspiring I’ll be there this Saturday too. If you read An Unknown Woman I’d like to know what you think. It’s my favorite of the two.

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Gobsmacked by the community here. Thank you. Both.

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This is such a beautiful community; thank you for THESE words. And we do have so many interesting conversations and sentences emerge from these workshops. Can't wait to spend some time with you Saturday afternoon.

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Oct 3Liked by Beth Kephart

I am older . Never expected to be. Nearer , a decade than my mother’s withering death . Road Song. I will be there.

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Jennifer, you will find yourself in the beauty of this book.

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I’ve been on a scavenger hunt for 73 years. It’s about time.

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Oct 17Liked by Beth Kephart

I must have read Road Song just when you did, Beth, so long ago. It made an indelible impression. But unlike you I've never read it again, despite loving it fiercely way back then. And now, I will get a copy and take that journey again. I'm so glad to you are here in this space, and that I can catch up and read all your offerings going back to the beginning. xo

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How deeply glad I am, Katrina, that you are here with me .... And ROAD SONG. Yes. And always.

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Confession: I purchased this book the first time you taught it (and so many more gems you’ve introduced me to) but I haven’t yet had the courage to read it. Instead, lend it to friends and then vicariously experience their awe.

I’m so sorry about your dad. I know this place.

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Oh, my heart, Sue Ann. Books find us when we need them most. I'm discovering this over and over again. You will make your way to Natalie, when the time is right. I'm sorry about your losses, too.

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Crying over here.

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she is the best —

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Beth - I read this book because you talked about it in a workshop. It has remained with me for a long time now.

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Always Road Song. Always. Thank you, Janie.

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I love that you have a woman's story as your north star! One of my greatest influences as a feminist woman of color is Gloria Anzaldua who wrote Borderlands/La Frontera--an amazing book that is memoir, philosophy, history, psychology, and more. She makes resistive the "third space" or the "mestiza consciousness" where people who inhabit in between spaces (geoterritorial, sexual, gendered, racial, cultural, national) can become their full, legitimized selves.

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I love learning this from you, in this early morning ... xo

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Oct 3Liked by Beth Kephart

You remind me that I have a memoir that I return to again and again, Alice Koller’s An Unknowm Woman, little known I imagine, but an intensely intimate questioning of self. I return

for her fierce desire to know herself, how she became, her refusal to set the question aside. It struck a cord in my neck.

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Charlotte, this is precisely what I hoped would happen in this space. Each memoir lover remembering a memoir they have loved. Thank you. I have never read Koller.

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I’ve gone and ordered it. Thank you for this recommendation. This seems like I a book I need at this point in life.

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Nicole, thank you. I think it would be impossible not to fall in love with, and be changed by, this book.

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You’ve awakened the memory of a remarkable book that is somewhere on my shelf, waiting for me to return.

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Rona, the most remarkable thing is that Road Song remains utterly timeless, undated, now. I love knowing that you own this book, too.

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