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REVIEW: Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall

Immersion: A Linguist’s Memoir by Linda Murphy Marshall chronicles decades of the author’s life in learning and working in foreign languages.

[This collection] begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle…

The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder.

In lyrical prose, the collection of brief essays examines subjects both commonplace and profound.

A long-forgotten American health crisis caused by tuberculosis is examined in a memoir of a childhood forever changed by the disease.

The essay collection offers a brief walk in someone else’s shoes, placing the walker into wider contexts of family, society and landscape.

Focusing on form, process, and hybridity, creative nonfiction guru Brenda Miller offers guidance and inspiration for writing the lyric essay.

The memoir uniquely explores the space between the facts of our lives and our shadow selves.

In a memoir focusing on place, wine is the unifying theme as the author traces the changes in Southern Italy, his ancestral home.

The memoir in essays excavates all the layers of what home is from the perspective of someone whose childhood home was never one place.

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