Book review Quote by Bainbridge Island Review

“Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young…

— Jancee Dunn

“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with finding our own thoughts more interesting than a long story about someone’s husband’s niece’s gum surgery. Introverts”

— Sophia Dembling

“Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.”

— Naomi Kinsman

“the concept of Mary Poppins is even stronger, implying a secure childhood and an answer to women’s perennial problem: how to balance their lives…

— Valerie Lawson

“as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their own experiences…

— Booker T. Washington

“I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“Isabel never tired of Esperanza’s stories about her previous life. Esperanza”

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“The fact is, parents and schools and cultures can and do shape people. The most important influence in my life, outside of my family,…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

“She learned that the best writing used dialogue almost in counterpoint to the visuals, so that what was heard was different from what was…

— Stephen Galloway

“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirror on every page”

— Peter Ackroyd

“the great advantage of really contemporary fiction is that one finds oneself mirrored on every page”

— Peter Ackroyd