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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020