God has given you a special task, they said. Save your mother’s soul.
“I made nametags. Mine read ‘Nancy—Dillon’s Other Mother.’”
Getting trashed was my way of announcing who I was: not Mormon.
“I felt like I was deep in a psychedelic trip.”
“I am not in awe of God, but I am in awe of faith.”
“Having been alive as a woman for several decades in the United States, I was not shocked by the control being exerted on women’s bodies.”
“I didn’t know I had made a family of friends until it was already happening.”
“Feminist discourse became the visible strain of cultural feminism.”
He waits tables at Havana’s Ambos Mundos, where Hemingway stayed.