They’re made of strong stuff, which is good, because what’s about to hit them is rough. Mira Banul and her friends are year-rounders, the people who stay when the summer sun has long gone. “This is the Story of You” takes place on Haven, a 6-mile-long, half-mile-wide stretch of Barrier Island. Perhaps I hear those voices so clearly because I teach memoir at the University of Pennsylvania, and we go deep and far, together, in that class. And those are the voices I hear - the voices of the young - when I begin to write. “And within those communities there are young people. “I write stories about communities of people - young and old, afraid and brave, lost and found,” Beth told Cracking the Cover. Because when I go for long stretches (a year, I’d guess) I get physically ill from not writing.”īeth is the award-winning author of 19 books, including “ Going Over, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir,” and “ Small Damages.” Her latest novel, “T his is the Story of You,” is written specifically with teens in mind. “Because I have tried to stop so many times, and I can’t. Beth Kephart writes because she cannot help it.
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