Sentences with phrase «how fictional families»

Similarly, I considered how fictional families, not unlike real ones, can challenge a protagonist unlike any other external or internal force.

Not exact matches

As someone steeped in the technicality of how our team at Revive & Restore will employ advancing biotechnologies to achieve our goal of ecological restoration it was a welcome and heartening reprieve to read an entertaining and creative take on how fictional twelve - year - old Chris remakes the passenger pigeon with some help from a remarkable secret family history while treading secretly himself to defy the limitations set upon him for his young age.

This documentary about Polley's own surprising family secrets — which includes some sneaky fictional or imaginative elements — might sound at first like a personal indulgence but becomes something much larger and subtler: A gripping investigation of the ultimately unknowable past, a meditation on how and whether we can actually know anything, and an act of profound love and generosity.

Directors Viewfinder: Creating a Fictional Family (5 minutes) allows Levy to talk about the making of the film and shows how he worked with the kids during filming.

What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick Ages 14 and up «Set on the beaches of a fictional island located off the coast of Connecticut, What I Thought Was True is the story of a young woman learning firsthand of the mystifying intricacies of love, lust, luxury and loyalty — and how each can change drastically for her friends, her family and herself.»

Exceptionally written novel that shows us what's in the mind of a fictional school shooter, what led him to commit the crime, and how his actions affect the lives of his family and friends.

Who she represents: Joshua Ferris (To Rise Again at a Decent Hour), Bret Anthony Johnston (Remember Me Like This), Lily King (Euphoria), Celeste Ng (Everything I Never Told You), Cristina Henriquez (The Book of Unknown Americans), Helen Simonson (Major Pettigrew's Last Stand), Mia Alvar (In the Country), Madeline Miller (The Song of Achilles), Alice Sebold (Lucky), Kathleen Kent (The Heretic's Daughter), Nicole Dennis - Benn (Here Comes the Sun), Megan Mayhew Bergman (Almost Famous Women), Paula McLain (The Paris Wife), Kevin Wilson (The Family Fang), Charles Yu (How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe)

Join us for the next installment of The SimuLife Diaries, where I learn how Ruben discovered OpenMind had bled into our world, and have a delightful home - cooked meal with a completely fictional family.