Magazine: Summer Reading Issue 2007

English Lesson

BY ELIZABETH STROUT  |  
Her innocence turned wise in a way-too-close encounter.

Becoming Water

BY URSULA HEGI  |  
A mother's love brought a grieving swimmer up from the deep.

May Through September

BY AIMEE BENDER  |  
It was time for her to read the true symbols of her marriage.

View From Lake Como

BY KEN KALFUS  |  
Away from home, he was dizzy with Roman fever.

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Four authors who have made their names writing fiction try a new genre: Elizabeth Strout, Ursula Hegi, Ken Kalfus and Aimee Bender share true summer stories in memoirs written and read for The Washington Post Magazine's annual Summer Reading Issue.

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