For most of us, our coming-of-age stories start and end during our years in high school or college.
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They are defined by strong relationships, rebellion and that awkward junior prom.
But for author Lori Horvitz the coming-of-age story was decades in the making. When she finished writing it, the product was a collection of comedic essays that covered her childhood, adolescence and adulthood.
Each tells the story of her search for identity as a quiet, Jewish Long Island girl who was exploring her sexuality.
Host Frank Stasio talks with Horvitz, a literature professor at UNC-Asheville, about her memoir, “The Girls of Usually” (Truman State University Press/2015).
