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Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies opens in the rural American west, following Faith Adiele’s whimsical coming of age as the only multiracial girl in a Nordic immigrant family obsessed with movies and voting. Set on one particular infamous election day, the formally-inventive memoir plays with the screenplay form, casting family members as characters in iconic American movies. Striking visual collages establish her union organizer grandfather, Finland’s reindeer battalions, James Bond, The Magnificent Seven, and others as unlikely models in Faith’s quest for heroism, identity and the American dream.  When read together with Her Voice (released simultaneously) Voice/Over provides an innovative “breakout” performative, a supplemental yet stand-alone praxis that expands the vision of the memoir genre (against capital-“H” History and capital- “T” Truth) beyond the singular, breaking free of convention, inclusive of hybrid, multiple, always personal/political, and ever-expanding genre/s. 

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“This screenplay + memoir + photo collage album is as rich and complex as a hybrid memoir gets. Weaving together politics, voting rights and classic filmography, Voice/Over takes readers on an unforgettable multiracial, multigenerational adventure.” —Susan Kiyo Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist “Voice/Over is a collage of images, form, politics, family and cultural history that journeys through 7 films to show voting as an act of resistance. From the Nordic family as James Bond Characters to Mummi’s battle with cancer, the family of migrants in a small town are shot against a political backdrop of Watergate and narrated through twin voices of Faith as a babyface, 9-year-old, brown child in an all white family and sometimes [an] invisible college student, who both keep taking us back to this one voting day where Mummi casts her vote to save the free world.”—Tara Dorabji, author of Call Her Freedom, winner of the Like Us First Novel Prize from Simon & Schuster “What does it mean to seek home, despite loss and violent erasure? Intricate and epic, devastating and hilarious, Faith Adiele’s remarkable quest is the story of every global diaspora.”—Tracy K. Smith, U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer-prize-winning author of Life on Mars “Part history lesson . . . part love letter . . . utterly captivating. A feast for the eyes, the mind, and the heart.”—Natalie Baszile, Author of Queen Sugar

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Faith Adiele writes and speaks about race, culture and travel. She is author of Meeting Faith, a memoir about ordaining as Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award and routinely appears on travel listicles. Her media credits include Sleep Stories (CALM app), two episodes of A World of Calm (HBOMax), and the documentary My Journey Home (PBS), about finding her family in Nigeria. Founder of the nation’s first writing workshop for travelers of color, she teaches at California College of the Arts and leads writing workshops around the world.

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