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At their familyâs New Jersey seaside cottages, Susanne Paola Antonettaâs grandmother led seances, swam nude, and imaginatively created a spiritualist paradise on earth. In The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here, Antonetta chronicles how in that unique but tightly controlled space, she began to explore the questions posed by herâŠ
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Susanne Paola Antonettaâs first book, Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir taught me how memoir can be compiled through multiple lensesâone that invites into the authorâs self-view and another through which you can learn about place and environmental degradation. With two (or more) questions, who-I-am becomes complicated and textured. Antonettaâs new The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here illustrates that understanding ourselves comes only through looking at those selves through other texts, other people, our current understanding of ourselves, science, place, and our childhoodâs vision of the world.
Antonetta takes quantum entanglement, her grandmotherâs Christian Science beliefs, and her own accountâŠ
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