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In I am home. I hear a strong voice, a writer's voice, all the way through. This novel-in-moments shows us someone who moves, spiritually and figuratively. I love Maili's portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship and the book's original narrative structure, the attractive way it travels in time and place, and the pleasant short chapters. Some of the shortest are real masterpieces. -Dra. Marta SegarraResearch Professor (Directrice de recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique- CNRS, Paris (France)Full Professor of French and Francophone Literatures and of Gender Studies Maili's I am home. is a crystal that refracts beauty, an imagistic prose poem about the act of turning heartbreak into love: love of place, people, and self. Artists will appreciate this painterly account of the turbulent years that lay behind the writing of her novel Lucy, go see.-Terry Burns, Professor Emerita of English, researcher, writer, and translator of Renaissance alchemy and alchemical texts Maili's uplifting text dances with elegant and fluid steps as it plays with form and forges its own-it is as much poetry as it is novel as it is remembrance. A composition of beautiful and poignant snapshots follows a sparkling and down-to-earth narrator as she returns to her hometown and engages friends, family, lovers, and herself in the events that lead to and from it. The movement and pace sweep readers near and far in place and back and forth in time without losing them or the focus on what it means to be home. Maili shares the deep pleasures open to all of us, which so many of us deny ourselves, and she does this through the painful experiences life also brings. This is the story's power, and its structure is supported by and justifies the author's choice to omit proper names-a namelessness that centers the work on transforming grief into beauty. It is one of the many ways Maili refuses to let the difficulty in the story darken it. And her humor is never far away. In this moving account of loving, being, and becoming; and personhood, womanhood, and motherhood; grief is undeniable, but beauty wins. -Re�l Fillion, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Sudbury

In I am home. I hear a strong voice, a writer's voice, all the way through. This novel-in-moments shows us someone who moves, spiritually and figuratively. I love Maili's portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship and the book's original narrative structure, the attractive way it travels in time and place, and the pleasant short chapters. Some of the shortest are real masterpieces. -Dra. Marta SegarraResearch Professor (Directrice de recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique- CNRS, Paris (France)Full Professor of French and Francophone Literatures and of Gender Studies Maili's I am home. is a crystal that refracts beauty, an imagistic prose poem about the act of turning heartbreak into love: love of place, people, and self. Artists will appreciate this painterly account of the turbulent years that lay behind the writing of her novel Lucy, go see.-Terry Burns, Professor Emerita of English, researcher, writer, and translator of Renaissance alchemy and alchemical texts Maili's uplifting text dances with elegant and fluid steps as it plays with form and forges its own-it is as much poetry as it is novel as it is remembrance. A composition of beautiful and poignant snapshots follows a sparkling and down-to-earth narrator as she returns to her hometown and engages friends, family, lovers, and herself in the events that lead to and from it. The movement and pace sweep readers near and far in place and back and forth in time without losing them or the focus on what it means to be home. Maili shares the deep pleasures open to all of us, which so many of us deny ourselves, and she does this through the painful experiences life also brings. This is the story's power, and its structure is supported by and justifies the author's choice to omit proper names-a namelessness that centers the work on transforming grief into beauty. It is one of the many ways Maili refuses to let the difficulty in the story darken it. And her humor is never far away. In this moving account of loving, being, and becoming; and personhood, womanhood, and motherhood; grief is undeniable, but beauty wins. -Reál Fillion, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Sudbury

In I am home. I hear a strong voice, a writer's voice, all the way through. This novel-in-moments shows us someone who moves, spiritually and figuratively. I love Maili's portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship and the book's original narrative structure, the attractive way it travels in time and place, and the pleasant short chapters. Some of the shortest are real masterpieces. -Dra. Marta SegarraResearch Professor (Directrice de recherche), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique- CNRS, Paris (France)Full Professor of French and Francophone Literatures and of Gender Studies Maili's I am home. is a crystal that refracts beauty, an imagistic prose poem about the act of turning heartbreak into love: love of place, people, and self. Artists will appreciate this painterly account of the turbulent years that lay behind the writing of her novel Lucy, go see.-Terry Burns, Professor Emerita of English, researcher, writer, and translator of Renaissance alchemy and alchemical texts Maili's uplifting text dances with elegant and fluid steps as it plays with form and forges its own-it is as much poetry as it is novel as it is remembrance. A composition of beautiful and poignant snapshots follows a sparkling and down-to-earth narrator as she returns to her hometown and engages friends, family, lovers, and herself in the events that lead to and from it. The movement and pace sweep readers near and far in place and back and forth in time without losing them or the focus on what it means to be home. Maili shares the deep pleasures open to all of us, which so many of us deny ourselves, and she does this through the painful experiences life also brings. This is the story's power, and its structure is supported by and justifies the author's choice to omit proper names-a namelessness that centers the work on transforming grief into beauty. It is one of the many ways Maili refuses to let the difficulty in the story darken it. And her humor is never far away. In this moving account of loving, being, and becoming; and personhood, womanhood, and motherhood; grief is undeniable, but beauty wins. -Real Fillion, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Sudbury

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Marianne Maili is an author and professor. She is best known for the award-winning novel, Lucy, go see. She has a PhD in The Construction and Representation of Cultural Identities from the University of Barcelona and lives between Los Angeles, Barcelona, and Paris.

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