{"id":2160,"date":"2019-10-07T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2019-10-07T07:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T11:36:05","slug":"i-was-anastasia-by-ariel-lawhon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2019\/10\/07\/i-was-anastasia-by-ariel-lawhon\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddie Marusek: I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This summer, I was strolling through the book section of the Costco near my house when a\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">book titled I<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Was Anastasia<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> caught my eye. I decided to buy the book, which was undoubtedly the best thing I have ever bought from Costco. Ariel Lawhon tells the story of\u00a0 Anastasia Romanav, the youngest daughter of the last Russain tsar, and her best known impersonator, Anna Anderson, compellingly enough to create the illusion of possibility that Anna is the real Anastasia. While everyone knew that the rest of Anastasia\u2019s family had been shot and killed by revolutionaries in 1918, Anastasia\u2019s body was not found until much later. While there was still the possibility of her remaining alive, many people claimed to be her, seeking game or to claim the family fortune. In <em>I Was Anastasia<\/em>,\u00a0Anna\u2019s story moves backwards in time from 1970 to 1918, and Anastasia\u2019s story moves forward to July 1918. As the story gets closer to the revolution in 1918, the two women\u2019s stories trade back and forth with rapid intensity. Anna\u2019s last words of the novel are a haunting reminder about how belief and trust often work only because we want to believe someone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, I was strolling through the book section of the Costco near my house when a\u00a0book titled I Was <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2019\/10\/07\/i-was-anastasia-by-ariel-lawhon\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1670,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwr"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}