Washington DC Author Sara Taber Releases Memoir of CIA Childhood

Feb. 17, 2012 - PRLog -- Washington, DC - Sara Mansfield Taber, author, editor and writing teacher, has released her fourth book, Born Under an Assumed Name: The Memoir of a Cold War Spy's Daughter.

In early February 2012, Potomac Books released Taber's memoir of her childhood in the prestigious and controversial world of international covert operations. http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=271880

Sara Mansfield Taber grew up in Asia, Europe and the US in a CIA family. As a youth, when in the US, she attended Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC. She has a Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington, and a Doctorate in Human Development from Harvard University. Her doctoral work focused on cross-cultural human development, blending psychology and anthropology.

Taber's writing is considered literary nonfiction and includes works of literary journalism, personal essay and memoir. She has been widely published in national literary magazines, and featured in the Washington Post and on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. To learn more about her life see her website. http://www.sarataber.com/bio.htm

On Saturday March 3rd at 3:30 p.m. Taber will hold her first reading for her new release at Politics and Prose Bookstore at 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW in Washington DC.

The book trailer from Born Under an Assumed Name is on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xj...

Reviewer quotes:

The sensory and emotional detail of this memoir is as delicately wrought as bone china, yet saved from fragility by Sara Taber’s uncompromising journey deeper and deeper inward with every page...a beautiful, mysterious, and unexpectedly suspenseful story of the struggle to find a place in the world.

-William O’Sullivan, features editor, The Washingtonian Magazine

Sara Mansfield Taber has worked magic with this intoxicating memoir of her exotic childhood. With a child’s innocence and sensitivity, Sara composes her family’s haunting story, stroke by exquisitely beautiful stroke. This vibrant family portrait of love and heart-ache also reveals much about America—our passion, confusion, contradictions, and especially, the tragedy we bring upon the world despite our very best intentions.

-Mary Stucky,National Public Radio

Taber's previous books include:

Bread of Three Rivers: The Story of a French Loaf
Dusk on the Campo: A Journey in Patagonia
Of Many Lands: Journal of a Traveling Childhood

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