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| About the Book | |
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Stories help us connect. Yes, they take us out of our comfort zone – out of our own world – and allow us to see things through other people’s eyes. But they also open us up to the values and feelings we share as human beings, establishing a kind of spiritual kinship between reader and subject. The stories in T. J. Banks’s The Twice-Given Gift & Other Writings help us make that connection. These deeply personal accounts of the Australian bush fires; Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s lying-in-state; artists and writers working at their craft; HIV/AIDS and animal-welfare activists; and so much more will stay with you long afterwards, broadening your compassion and understanding.
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When T.J. Banks asks a question, it isn’t one of those that skims across the surface of a still body but creates ripples that play over again and again. Her interviewing allows one to share freely with trust and affection. Clearly, she is an animal lover, as her primal abilities to ease the feral protective impulses of the interviewed become apparent when the interviewed realizes she’s taken him places he had not gone before
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| About the Author | |
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T. J. Banks is the author of A Time for Shadows, Abys Among Us & Other Stories for the Feline-Inclined (winner of the 2020 CWA’s Muse Medallion for Non-fiction Books), Catsong (winner of the 2007 Merial Human-Animal Bond Award), Sketch People, and Houdini, which writer Cleveland Amory called “a winner.” |