Unsayable: A Life in Writing Cozy Fantasy Fiction favor the plainspoken and the

favor the plainspoken and the specific

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giving hope and light to those living in terror in Holland as they begin to restore the dazzling pre-war life of Amsterdam and The Hague

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Unsayable: A Life in Writing Cozy Fantasy Fiction favor the plainspoken and theAn intimate memoir portraying a life spent trying to describe the indescribable, from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Hours and Day Go ahead. Try using language to slit the skin of mortality to see whats on the other side. At the age of three, Michael Cunningham began obsessively collecting the names of things: oak, Chevrolet, finch, tulip, Tupperware. . . . Each word rendered the world ever so slightly more understandable, more describable,