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Seven Minutes from Home An American Daughter’s Story
Laurel Richardson
A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN: 978-94-6300-541-8 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-542-5 (hardback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-543-2 (e-book)
Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/
All chapters in this book have undergone peer review.
Cover photo by Laurel Richardson
Printed on acid-free paper
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PRAISE FOR SEVEN MINUTES FROM HOME
“A tour de force, the penultimate statement from gifted writer Laurel Richardson. For the last three decades Richardson has defined and then charted the murky waters of critical, literary autoethnographic discourse. Here an American daughter’s story comes home. We all need a starting place, seven minutes from home is a good place to begin.” – Norman Denzin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Laurel’s Seven Minutes from Home takes us into her neighborhood and the mundane and not-so-mundane moments of her everyday life. We accompany her walking her beloved dogs, socializing with neighbors, eating with family, restoring her home, buying ice cream, and participating in local poetry groups. We come to know her and her neighborhood through her blending of ethnographic sensibilities and literary writing, where the past and present connect and the self is contextualized in relationships, neighborhoods, and the larger community. The stories are riveting; you will not be able to stop reading. You will identify with her experiences and they will stay with you, meaning you now will see things in your neighborhood you have not seen before and think of your identity and home in more nuanced ways th
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