I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence. Amity Gaige americacompareconfidence Change image and share on social
I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart. Amity Gaige childdealdivorce Change image and share on social
There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school. Amity Gaige interfereschooltime Change image and share on social
My mother was born in Latvia. She and most of her family fled from the capital city of Riga in 1944 with the final approach of the Soviet army. Amity Gaige approacharmybear Change image and share on social
For several years before I began 'The Folded World,' I worked at an urban college campus and had a job in a tutoring center, and people would come into the tutoring center, and for some reason, they just kept telling me their life stories. Amity Gaige begincampuscenter share on social
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog. Amity Gaige badbehaviordesign share on social
Edan Lepucki sets her debut novel, 'California,' somewhere in the 2060s. The nearness of this era helps make her vision both more discomfiting and more credible. Amity Gaige 2060scaliforniacredible Change image and share on social
Nobody writes like Nabokov; nobody ever will. What I would give to write one sentence like Vladimir! Amity Gaige givenabokovsentence Change image and share on social
It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem. Amity Gaige acceptantibaseline Change image and share on social
I think marriage and family keeps being written about because that's where we keep our reputations with ourselves - I mean, we can't quite slip the truths we reveal about ourselves at home. Amity Gaige familyhomemarriage Change image and share on social
