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In Search Of: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction

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Illustrated by Brandon Boyd of Incubus, with stories by Kevin Sites (In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars), Jeffrey Tayler (Facing the Congo: A Modern Day Journey Into the Heart of Darkness), Rolf Potts (Vagabonding), and others.

In Search Of offers a wide-angle lens into the craft of creative nonfiction in a unique collection by fourteen professional, academic, and student writers, whose stories traverse oceans and continents in the common search for identity and place.

This anthology has been used for curriculum at the State University of New York College at New Paltz Creative Writing Program, which is benefited by 100% of the sales and profits of the book through Codhill Press.

115 pages, Paperback

First published April 15, 2011

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July 2, 2017
There were points in some stories where I couldn't personally relate to, but it's nice to know they were all nonfiction stories. Because at the end of the day, you learn something new.
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November 10, 2015
~Disclaimer: I received this book for free in a giveaway~

This collection is a pretty mixed bag. Some stories I actually disliked, some I didn't feel much for and about 1/4 of them I enjoyed.

The problem with non-fiction is it doesn't feel very non-fiction when you are saying what someone else is feeling. That would be interpretation. Some of these stories I would really like to hear the other side to. Particularly the ones I didn't enjoy.

If you like creative non-fiction you may enjoy this. But I feel realistic fiction fans would like it more? I feel bad leaving a negative review, but there is no one I can justify a positive one.
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October 4, 2015
I won this book on Good Reads First Reads. I was not a huge fan of these short stories. Some were ok others were just a little bizarre. I found some a little hard to follow. I think these stories were a little too short.
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