Unveiling Self: A Collection of Student Memoirs

Within the pages of Unveiling Self, you will read about family—dynamics, divorce, how we define ourselves in relation to or in opposition from our parents; the body—masculine/feminine cultural expectations, scars, illness; and the Self: that capital “S” sense of inner knowing. These essays ask tough questions about perfectionism, drugs, approval, brokenness, and personal power. The truths these writers discovered may have come in fragments, pieces of memory blurring into images, voices, and histories; but what they have offered here is a cohesive collection of how they see the world and are unveiling their place within it. The writers invite you to remove the veil and read. Story by story and fragment by fragment, may you see what they all saw, and in that looking, recognize parts of yourself.