What Is the What writes: "Over the course of many years, Dave and I have collaborated to tell my story... I told [him] what I knew and what I could remember, and from that material he created this work of art." The book is typical of Eggers' style: blending non-fictional and fictional elements into a non-fiction novel or memoir. By classifying the book a novel, Eggers says, he freed himself to re-create conversations, streamline complex relationships, add relevant detail and manipulate time and space in helpful ways—all while maintaining the essential truthfulness of the storytelling. However, not all critics were impressed. Lee Siegel sees
Delia Jarrett-Macauley fiction with the real struggle to rebuild the place known as Salone". She has also contributed to other programmes such as "Woman’s Hour" and "Open Book" on Radio 4, the Radio 3 website on Ideas and Culture and the 2004 BBC Music Live Festival. She voiced "Warrior Marks", Alice Walker's documentary film, which was shown on UK television (based on the 1993 book of the same title about female genital mutilation). Delia Jarrett-Macauley Delia Jarrett-Macauley, DMS, Ph.D., FRSA, also known as Dee Jarrett-Macauley, is a London-based British writer, academic and broadcaster of Sierra Leonean heritage. Her debut novel, "Moses, Citizen