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It may be an understatement to say reading this book changed how I think about stories. In fact, it helped to shape my entire worldview. I read it over ten years ago, and it hasn’t left my brain since. I think I’ve always understood the world through stories, but this book showed me how narratives operate: how they function to organize our world, how they act upon us, and how changing them also changes our reality. I remember finishing it and having to stare into space to process it. When I was (briefly) a high school English teacher, it was the first text I taught. And I think it’s a must-read for anyone interested in stories—which is all of us.
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