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Karissa Chen
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A Playlist!
While writing this book, I kept a running list in Scrivener of the songs and pieces I referenced, and then made a YouTube playlist too (not Spotify bc it's missing a lot of these older, historical songs). I would sometimes play through the list as I was revising, just to make sure I got everything right when I was describing them, or just to be immersed in that particular soundtrack. So I've decid
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Homeseeking
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Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement
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Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
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13th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection
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Buscando un hogar
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Gah I adored this book so much!!! It was smart, eye-opening, but also SO INCREDIBLY FUN. I learned so much about Calabrese culture, history, and so much about policies that affected these inhabitants, the common practices of the time, and more. I was ...more |
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“Suchi knew now that home wasn't a place. It wasn't moments that could be pinned down. It was people, people who share the same ghosts as you, folks long gone, places long disappeared. People who knew you, saw you, loved you. When those people were far-flung, your home was too. And when those people were gone, home lived on inside of you.”
― Homeseeking
― Homeseeking
“Life was dynamic and vast, and she wondered if she'd ever be able to experience enough of it to feel satisfied, if she could die happy knowing she'd only gotten to rub up against the small corner of the world she lived in.”
― Homeseeking
― Homeseeking
“You know the word mingyun, right? Your personal destiny in this life? Think about the two characters that make up the word. Ming is the inherent nature of your life as given to you by the gods. It's a destiny that can't be changed, the way the innate characteristics you are born with can't be changed. But what is yun? Yun is where flexibility comes in. Yun is fortune that changes with the seasons of the universe but can also turn depending on the actions you take, the choices you make. Together ming and yun make up a river, one that wants to carry you to a particular destination but moves fluidly, possibly diverging if a tree falls along its path or a large rainfall swells its banks. You, too, can change the path of the river; you can even swim upstream if you want to. Just expect it will be tiring, not as easy as moving with the current.”
― Homeseeking
― Homeseeking
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