An autobiographical essay considers masks, labels and the difficulty of being oneself.

Aldona Kopkiewicz's subject invites readers to ask whether a stable self exists behind every social role, or whether relationships help create it. Choose this for reflective prose about identity, especially if you enjoy a personal voice that uses its own experience to open questions rather than close them.

WHO IS IT FOR?

For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.