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proving the eternal creative flexibility of language and the restorative vitality of one person's cultural memory

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move in and out of each other's stories

and the University of Chicago

American Odysseys Mexico and programming partners in theAmerican Odysseys is an anthology of twenty two novelists, poets, and short story writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature . . . American Odysseys is an anthology of twenty two novelists, poets, and short story writers drawn from the shortlist for the 2011 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature. Including Ethiopian born Dinaw Mengestu, the recipient of the Prize; Yugoslavian born Ta Obreht,