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“My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry,…

— Megan Miranda

“It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“We were talking about my dad, remembering him as vividly as possible as possible because we knew we weren’t going to get any knew…

— Kevin Kling

“My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met”

— Raji Singh

“They did the best they could. Besides I was hardly a stranger. I had known your grandmother. We were like this." She twined her…

— Gregory Maguire

“I felt as if I had gotten to the point where I could no longer trust myself. I was not the same person any…

— Benjamin Jones

“Some of them were confused and angry, but given the same circumstances, I was convinced that I would have turned out just like them.…

— Cristina Rathbone

“I did and do believe, after all that I've seen and done, that if you project yourself into the mass of things, if you…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“As that gentleman passed through, I felt a kinship.”

— George Saunders

“The story of his great-grandfather . . . was his own story, too.”

— Kelly Cherry

“Of course, in a hundred years, no one will remember any of us and our story will be lost in obscurity, but for us,…

— Jen Hatmaker