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I will always remember the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but not because I watched any of it. At the time, I didn’t even know where exactly in the U.S. Atlanta was located. Rather, for the duration of the Olympics that summer, my family, newly arrived in America, was camping (legally) in a state park just outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, waiting for the move-in date of our new apartment.

Nadya Williams is a Senior Fellow in the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, where she also serves as the interim director of the MFA program. She is books editor at Mere Orthodoxy, where she hosts the Christians Reading Classics podcast. Her latest book is Christians Reading Classics.