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Lori Jakiela's Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker is a funny, highly relatable narrative that reveals how family, culture, and work form our identities as self-concept and as others perceive us.

- Brian Hays, Assistant Professor of English

I found this book to be engaging, VERY funny, and full of stories I could relate to. The author knows how to connect to real folks and their everyday chaotic lives, and writes in a style that makes you feel like you are talking with a good friend. Highly recommend it!

- Lynna Thomas, Special Populations Counselor

Official Author Website

Lori Jakiela

In Case You're Wondering About the Unusual Title

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
Click the title to read the book. James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique. The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce's novels, this book portrays the Dublin upbringing of Stephen Dedalus, from his youthful days at Clongowes Wood College to his radical questioning of all convention. In doing so, it provides an oblique self-portrait of the young Joyce himself. At its center lie questions of origin and source, authority and authorship, and the relationship of an artist to his family, culture, and race.

Poets Mentioned in the Book

Songs

Begin the Beguine, 1939
Joe Loss & Chick Henderson
Begin the Beguine, 1946
Frank Sinatra
Seasons in the Sun, 1974
Terry Jacks
Somewhere My Love
- Lara's Theme from the movie Doctor Zhivago.
- Composed by Maurice Jarre, easy piano arrangement by Lara Andrean