Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of Storytelling

Gather: Richard Van Camp on the Joy of StorytellingMaster storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp on how to tell a good story. Gathering around a campfire, or the dinner table, we humans have always told stories. Through the stories we tell, we define our own identities and shape our understanding of the world. Master storyteller and bestselling author Richard Van Camp writes of the power of storytelling and its potential to transform both the speaker and the audience in Gather. Describing

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he discusses the interrelationship between language and culture

and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people

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repeats to himself in this vivid and utterly compelling novel

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Despite how little communications technology has helped to bring people toward understanding one another