True at First Light | Ideas for Group Discussion
Discussions might usefully begin with comparison of other works that contain some of the same elements: memoir or factbased fiction; the human and writerly problems inherent in a work written by a "foreigner" or "outsider" who loves, and wants to celebrate, a place and culture in which the writer was not born and raised; themes of hunting and quest; religious motifs and the desire to make religion more inclusive; the legacies of colonialism; the nature of human solidarity in a multicultural and multiethnic society.
1. How can True at First Light be understood as "fiction"?...
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