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‟ In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.
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‟ In the country in Kentucky, people are just amazed that anybody in New York wants to read about their lives.
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‟ I used my NEA fellowship to write my novel, 'In Country,' which was published by Harper & Row in 1985.
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‟ Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
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‟ Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
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‟ 'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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‟ 'In Country' was also made into a film, which opened the story up to a broader audience.
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