The Wardrobe's Best Dressed: Lori Jakiela's "Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe"

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Excerpt from Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe

When I was very young, I told my parents I loved them all the time. “Pass the salt please, I love you. May I have an extra roll please, I love you.” Once my father asked me why I did this and I said, “Because I want it to be the last thing you hear before you die.” He wouldn’t talk to me for days after that. This is how I knew I’d given him the wrong answer.
The right answer was “Because I love you so much.”

This selection comes from Lori Jakiela’s book, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe available now from Atticus Books. Purchase your copy here!

Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoirs The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious (C&R Press) and Miss New York Has Everything (Hatchette), as well as the poetry collection Spot the Terrorist (Turning Point). Her third memoir — Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe — is forthcoming from Atticus in 2015.

She has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize many times, is the recipient of a Golden Quill award for column writing from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, performed at Lollapalooza and won the first-ever Literary Death Match/Pittsburgh.

A former flight attendant and journalist, Jakiela now teaches writing. She lives outside of Pittsburgh with her husband — author Dave Newman — and their family.

Her website is http://lorijakiela.net and she occasionally blogs about writing and other stuff she likes at http://ljwritesbooks.com.

Sarah Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir (University of Georgia Press 2015), Remnants of Passion (Shebooks 2014). Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Sun, Ninth Letter, PANK and other journals. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is also the prose editor for Stirring: A Literary Collective and the special projects editor for Brevity Magazine. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.