Hey, here’s a link to an audio file of an interview I did with Rachael Hanel (a myspace buddy!) of the KMSU “Weekly Reader” radio show on April 3, 2008.
http://podcasting. gcsu. edu/4DCGI/Podcasting/GaSouth/Episodes/29365/24419. mp3
Thank you, Rachael!!!
I talked about my book, Opa Nobody, and about research and family. And I noticed that as I talked to Rachael and heard her lovely Minnesooota accent I began to sound very Midwestern myself.
See if you can pick up on those vowels, ya know?
From a great review by Valerie Weaver-Zercher in The Christian Century Magazine (May 6, 2008): “Rather than setting documents, histories and photographs in opposition to family lore, however, Huber plumbs family stories for the truths they hold, even if they ultimately prove not to be factual. ‘Remembering is an act of the imagination,’ poet W. S. Di Piero has written, and it is precisely Huber’s play with the imaginative possibilities in the gaps between historical fact and family memory that makes her project so poetic and moving. “