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How to pronounce Brigid Pasulka: Pa –soolk –ah
Brigid Pasulka was born and raised in rural Illinois and has lived in Poland, Russia, Germany and Italy.
Her debut novel, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True won the 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
Her second novel, The Sun and Other Stars, was an Indie Next pick for February 2014.
Brigid lives in Chicago with her husband and son and runs the writing center at a public high school.
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In the Spring of 1994, I ignored every practical impulse and decided to spend the
year after college living somewhere abroad. I did a TEFL (Teaching English
as a Foreign Language) course in Hastings, in the South of England, that summer and afterwards spent a week at a bonsai nursery in East Grinstead
with two of my coursemates, sorting through my vast options. Somehow I ended up
alone on a train platform in Krakow with a pile of luggage, no job, no place to
stay, no contacts and about ten words of Polish. I decided to stay the year.
Incredibly, that year turned out to be all I'd hoped for—liberating,
gut-wrenching and mystical, set against the primordial dawn of capitalism in
Eastern Europe and the waning dusk of the pre-Internet world. Every lost Gen-X
kid's fantasy.
I
returned to Chicago and couldn't stop telling stories about Krakow. When I
sensed my family and friends were growing weary of me, I began to inflict my
stories on my computer. I had never written any fiction outside of class
assignments. I certainly did not set out to write a novel. I only meant to
make a list of the things I didn't want to forget about that year in Krakow.&...
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