Awake with Asashoryu and Other Essays - McKetta, Elisabeth Sharp
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"At the heart of every essay in Elisabeth Sharp McKetta's lively and luminous collection is a question: how does one grow up without losing oneself? McKetta braids the deceptively simple stories of her own life with the rich undercurrent of familiar childhood tales to reveal something both personal and universal, and as close to the truth as possible. Whether she is spending sleepless nights watching the sumo wrestler Asashoryu with her also-awake father or settling into a new life in a fishing hamlet in Cornwall, struggling with a beloved and ultimately untrainable corgi named Goblin or…mehr

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"At the heart of every essay in Elisabeth Sharp McKetta's lively and luminous collection is a question: how does one grow up without losing oneself? McKetta braids the deceptively simple stories of her own life with the rich undercurrent of familiar childhood tales to reveal something both personal and universal, and as close to the truth as possible. Whether she is spending sleepless nights watching the sumo wrestler Asashoryu with her also-awake father or settling into a new life in a fishing hamlet in Cornwall, struggling with a beloved and ultimately untrainable corgi named Goblin or trying to resist her mother's gifts and with them the implications of who she should be, McKetta's essays sparkle with life and twist round and about: funny and insightful and compelling"--
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Elisabeth Sharp McKetta grew up in Austin, Texas and holds literature degrees from Harvard, Georgetown, and the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches writing for the Harvard Extension School and the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. She is the author of nine books including She Never Told Me About the Ocean (Paul Dry Books), Poetry for Strangers Vols. I and II, and The Fairy Tales Mammals Tell. Visit elisabethsharpmcketta.com to learn more.