{"id":6963,"date":"2018-05-09T14:05:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2018-05-09T14:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T20:05:32","slug":"unwind-the-mind-with-i-am-i-am-i-am-featured-book-for-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2018\/05\/09\/unwind-the-mind-with-i-am-i-am-i-am-featured-book-for-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwind the Mind with I Am, I Am, I Am, Featured Book for May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vufind.carli.illinois.edu\/vf-dpu\/Record\/dpu_1243470\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6967 size-medium\" title=\"I Am I Am I Am\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/i_am.jpg?resize=203%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/i_am.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1 203w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/i_am.jpg?w=270&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>In the autobiographical\u00a0<em>I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes With Death<\/em>, Maggie O\u2019Farrell chronicles 17 personal near-death experiences.\u00a0 Each of the events is recounted in its own essay; some stories are short and fleeting, some are more complicated, with far-reaching consequences.\u00a0\u00a0In telling these tales, she creates a full narrative of her life, weaving a story through moments in time when a life almost ends, but doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>This is O&#8217;Farrell&#8217;s eighth book.\u00a0 She is also the author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vufind.carli.illinois.edu\/all\/vf-dpu\/Record\/6962396\"><em>The Distance Between Us<\/em><\/a>, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vufind.carli.illinois.edu\/all\/vf-dpu\/Record\/11417694\"><em>The Hand That First Held Mine<\/em><\/a>, which won\u00a0the 2010 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.costa.co.uk\/costa-book-awards\/welcome\/\">Costa Novel Award<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Find reviews of <em>I Am, I Am, I Am<\/em> and interviews with the author below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sturges, F.\u00a0 (18 Aug 2017).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/aug\/18\/i-am-i-am-i-am-by-maggie-ofarrell-17-brushes-with-death\">I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O\u2019Farrell review \u2013 17 brushes with death<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em> (US edition).<\/li>\n<li>Gross, T. (5 Feb 2018).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/02\/05\/583333064\/after-17-brushes-with-death-a-writer-reflects-on-coming-back-from-the-brink\">After 17 Brushes With Death, A Writer Reflects On Coming &#8216;Back From The Brink.&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0 <em>Fresh Air<\/em>, NPR.<\/li>\n<li>Shapiro, D. (1 Jan 2018). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/05\/books\/review\/i-am-i-am-i-am-maggie-ofarrell.html\">I Am, I Am, I Am Seventeen Brushes With Death By Maggie O&#8217;Farrell<\/a>. <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em>, 123, 14, 18-18.<\/li>\n<li>Winkler, E. (2018). <a href=\"http:\/\/ezproxy.depaul.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/search.proquest.com\/docview\/1993555950?accountid=10477\">Review: A Danse Macabre in \u2018I Am, I Am, I Am\u2019.<\/a> <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> &#8211; Online Edition, 1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vufind.carli.illinois.edu\/vf-dpu\/Record\/dpu_1243470\"><em>I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes With Death<\/em><\/a> by Maggie O&#8217;Farrell in the Loop Popular Reading Collection, Call Number: 155.937 O31I2018<\/p>\n<p><em>Come in and check us out!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the autobiographical\u00a0I Am, I Am, I Am, Seventeen Brushes With Death, Maggie O\u2019Farrell chronicles 17 personal near-death experiences.\u00a0 Each of the events is recounted in its own essay; some stories are short and fleeting, some are more complicated, with far-reaching consequences.\u00a0\u00a0In telling these tales, she creates a full narrative of her life, weaving a <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2018\/05\/09\/unwind-the-mind-with-i-am-i-am-i-am-featured-book-for-may\/\" class=\"read-more\">continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":6967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-books","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GMS7-1Oj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/i_am.jpg?fit=270%2C400&ssl=1&wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6985,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/6985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}