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Marina Budhos
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Sometimes I take a walk or read a book that might inspire me. Or I start doodling in my writing, not trying to get my paragraphs so perfect.
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Ask Me No Questions
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2006
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Watched
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2016
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The Long Ride
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2019
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Tell Us We're Home
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2010
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We Are All We Have
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2022
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8 editions
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Remix: Conversations with Immigrant Teenagers
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1999
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The Professor of Light
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1999
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House of Waiting
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1995
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Father's Tale
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1989
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Sexual Harassment: Research & Resources
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NOLA: A Love Letter
I may be a latecomer to New Orleans, but it looks like I’m making up for lost time. Before my son Sasha chose Tulane, I’d never visited the city. I knew NOLA purely through the novel The Awakening and a vague sense of its great jazz. I had standard images that flickered across my lids: […]
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There Are Rivers in the Sky
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Real Americans
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“When we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was. Here we lived with no map. We became invisible, the people who swam in between other people's lives, bussing dishes, delivering groceries. What was wrong?
We didn't know. The most important thing, Abba said, was not to stick out. Don't let them see you. But I think it hurt him, to hide so much.”
― Ask Me No Questions
We didn't know. The most important thing, Abba said, was not to stick out. Don't let them see you. But I think it hurt him, to hide so much.”
― Ask Me No Questions
“Because we looked away in the past, does that mean we can look away now?
Page 76”
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“Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.”
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“So often, as writers, we keep pressing ourselves against a wall. We know we’re stuck. We know this direction isn’t working. But stubbornness and pride keep us pushing in the same direction. In backing away from our original plan, we must have faith that the essence is there, but some radical departure must take place.--Writer's Digest”
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