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We inherit plots... There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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The world is crammed with messages. We'll never have time to read them all.
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That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.
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Janette Turner Hospital
Born:
November 12, 1942
(age 82)
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Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, principally Boston, Kingston and Columbia.
Known for:
Orpheus Lost (2007)
Due preparations for the plague (2003)
The Ivory Swing (1982)
The Last Magician (1992)
The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983)
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