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The Epigraph at the beginning of the book, a quotation by poet Audre Lorde, reads: “You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place. That’s a very difficult way to live, but it has also served me. It’s been an asset as well as a liability.” What does Lorde mean by this? How does this quotation reflect the plot and themes evident within Mock’s memoir?
As a work of nonfiction, much of the memoir is dictated my Mock’s memory, which she acknowledges as subjective. How does this contribute to and/or detract from the importance that experience and subjectivity play within the work?