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  • Author Delia Owens
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    Now in her hands, the final copy- every brushstroke, every carefully thought-out color, every word of the natural histories, printed in a book. There were also drawings of the creatures who live inside- how they eat, how they move, how they mate- because people forget about creatures who live in shells.She touched the pages and remembered each shell and the story of finding it, where it lay on the beach, the season, the sunrise. A family album.

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  • Author Kamel Daoud
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    She taught me to read the book in a certain way, tilting it sideways as though to make invisible details fall out.

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  • Author John Berger
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    I still sometimes encounter readers from the South who speak to me of the book's impact on them when it first fell into their hands in an Istanbul shantytown, a Greek port, the slums of Madrid, Damascus or Bombay. In these different places the book had an intimate address. It was no longer a sociological (or even political at the first degree) treatise but, rather, a little book of life stories, a sequence of lived moments — such as one finds in a family photo album. [From the Preface]

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