Professor Autumn Womack

Like it was I don't know if it was like my first introduction to her.

But that was the first time that I read her work.

And I remember just loving it.

And I was not a natural born reader.

It took me a while to get there.

I came to it a little bit later.

And then I came to it through biography, interestingly, because I had to read something every night.

So I was reading the comic books and like graphic novels.

Like I had to get in my reading quota.

But I remember like just devouring it and just reading it like on the bus to school and reading it everywhere.

Yeah.

And there was something about the story, which I'm sure you guys will talk about it or have talked about it, which it does.

It is this very it's a once a coming age story, but it's also so mythological.

And it also is this like buildings were on.

And I mean, it felt like I just spoke to me in the kind of like a quest for oneself or the family and in confronting secrets.

And what you thought you knew is not what you knew at all.

And I had read The Odyssey the year before, so I was like clocking all of the references.

So that, I just, I loved it.

And it just kind of gave me language, I think.

And this is probably the real core of the question.