Jami Attenberg models a long but tenacious journey toward writing
by Heller McAlpin
Jan 10, 2022
3 minutes
Novelist Jami Attenberg’s midlife memoir isn’t exactly a victory lap, but it’s written from a place of hard-won contentment after years of struggle. Among other things, “I Came All This Way to Meet You,” an account of how Attenberg became a full-time writer, is a paean to persistence.
It is also the kind of book that will interest some people very much – especially aspiring writers. Others, to whom her work is less familiar, perhaps not
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