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An Image of My Name Enters America

An Image of My Name Enters America shows Lucy Ives’ magpie brilliance in essays that weave together My Little Pony, childbirth, her family’s immigration story and much more.

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Review of ‘An Image of My Name Enters America’

Lucy Ives writes with a madcap intellectualism—think David Sedaris with a Ph.D. Her new collection of essays, An Image of My Name Enters America, sutures together such heterogeneous topics as fetal consciousness, unicorns, the medieval mystic Margery Kempe and the end of the world. Much like in Ives’ fiction (

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