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Draw your weapons book7/2/2023 ![]() That split is made literal here, in a heartbreakingly honest rendering of both the process and the story. ![]() ‘Perhaps all memoir writing necessitates a personality split, as the author tries to wrestle the subject down. This book will be considered a masterpiece.’ - Sarah Sentilles, award-winning author of Draw Your Weapons and Stranger Care Be the one whos late, too, and see what the. Weapons draw is at 0500, so be at the armory no later than 0300. It is a work conscious of the hope it might offer, as well as the fickle and provisional possibility of ever sharing our most painful secrets, and of what might have to be smashed for that to happen.’ - The Saturday Paper Where one gets their weapon from the armory. ‘ Homesickness makes something from shattered history, inventively dismantling and remaking linear memoir to do so. Mikosza’s approach is not only brave it is giving, and vitally important.’ - The Conversation ![]() ‘This transformative relationship between truth and storytelling shines through in Homesickness. It asks intriguing questions about what the form can do and be, at the same time as it asks us what we can do and be for ourselves, how we can show up for ourselves both on and off the page.’ - The Weekend Australian ‘This is an emotionally moving work that also pushes memoir forward. ![]()
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