The Voice of the Turtle" is a nonfiction, narrative memoir which relates the evolution of an individual female consciousness. Within this memoir, Robin Montgomery Kennedy relates her struggle to find, express, and retain a voice, a self-identity and awareness of human limitations, and the choices available within the artificial constraints of society. This memoir is the recounting of this individual's journey on the voyage to becoming an open, expressive, direct being, within societal

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... as a twentieth century, female Iowan. Each narrative essay relates a turning point in this woman's life which brings her to a greater awareness of who she is, beyond knowing how she is viewed by others, which allows her to develop into an individual shaped not only by outer influences, the voices she hears, but to tune in with her own inner voice, her own innate intuitive directives.