I think fiction gives us a door into what is actually happe… - Maaza Mengiste

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I think fiction gives us a door into what is actually happening around us. There are those who don’t trust fiction, they will read history or biography, but they don’t understand that those forms of narrative are also constructed.

Maaza Mengiste

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Maaza Mengiste (born 1974) is an Ethiopian-American author.

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