Where Are You From...?

The central question in John Irving's novel A Son of the Circus [I just finished reading it...] is where are you from...an interesting question when you are not presently "where you are from." Maybe one way to know where you are from is when no one asks you where you are from?

I must look like I am from Texas, because in the short time I have been here several people have asked me for directions...

In any case, I enjoyed the second half of A Son of the Circus very much...the first half is slow to develop and may be well worth reading again now that I have gotten into the story in the second half...kind of like life I guess.
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John Paul Irving

Born:
March 2, 1942Exeter, New Hampshire
Occupation(s):
novelist, screenwriter
Influences:
Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Günter Grass
John Winslow Irving (born March 2, 1942 as John Wallace Blunt, Jr.) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Since achieving great critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978, all of Irving's novels, including well-known works The Cider House Rules and A Prayer For Owen Meany, have been bestsellers. Many of his novels have been made into movies, and Irving won the 2000 Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for his novel The Cider House Rules.

A Son of the Circus (1995). Arguably his most complicated and difficult book, it was dismissed by critics but became a national bestseller on the strength of Irving's reputation for fashioning literate, engrossing page-turners.