This Is the Story of You by Beth Kephart

In literary prose Kephart explores real world issues through complex characters and surreal imagery. Highly recommended.Beth Kephart is one of my favorite young adult authors because her sophisticated writing challenges teens to think for themselves. Personal, searing, unexpected, smart, VW's Mrs Dalloway illuminates not just a single classic book, but the very act and art of reading itself. What is this famous Mrs Dalloway and why has it remained essential, gorgeous, sometimes infuriating reading? How has Black herself experienced the book-its themes, its sharp corners, its insinuations, its tests? How has the book challenged Black not just as a reader and a writer, but as a woman who grew up wondering about who she was, and who she might become?

In both conception and execution, this book is irresistible. Now here Black comes, with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, one in a series of Bookmarked books. Now here Black The second best thing to talking with Robin Black-to spending time with her expansive mind, to learn from her about the books she reads, to frame new questions (thanks to Black's generosity) for oneself-is to read the books she writes. The second best thing to talking with Robin Black-to spending time with her expansive mind, to learn from her about the books she reads, to frame new questions (thanks to Black's generosity) for oneself-is to read the books she writes. Please visit me at or ġ of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars I'm also an award-winning teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founder of Juncture Workshops, and an essayist and critic with work appearing in The New York Times, Life magazine, Ninth Letter, Catapult, The Millions, The Rumpus, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and elsewhere. I'm the award-winning writer of more than two-dozen books in multiple genres-memoir, middle grade and young adult fiction, picture books, history, corporate fable, and books on the making of memoir.

This Is the Story of You by Beth Kephart