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Just beneath My Skin: Autobiography and Self-Discovery

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Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile." These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken and a model for anyone who has contemplated self-investigation through autobiographical writing ...more
Paperback , 190 pages
Published October 11th 2004 by University of Georgia Press
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This book wowed me. She writes honestly about subjects like gender, race, and class without slipping into cliche or being trite. And she is so raw about her own self-discovery. I inhaled this book.
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Foster came to IWU to be MUSE's first keynote speaker. She's pretty awesome.
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