On this episode of Our American Stories, for years, author Leslie Leyland Fields believed the best stories belonged to other people. Then her literary agent challenged her to write the one book she never wanted to write: her own memoir.

Leslie, a regular contributor to Our American Stories, shares how writing Surviving the Island of Grace forced her to confront the deeper story beneath her experiences living on a remote Alaska island, transforming not only her writing but her understanding of grace, healing, and the power of telling the truth about our own lives.

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