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| Author | : Michele Filgate |
| Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2020-08-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1982107359 |
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
| Author | : Wilton Broomes |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2015-11-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1514427079 |
My grandfather came from the Island of Barbados with his mother, brothers, and sisters to Tobago in about 1890. They established themselves in their new home, but no one alive today seems to be able to make any connection with our Barbados relatives, which for a very long time had been my desire. My father had told me some stories that I wanted to share with some of my relatives and began to do so as attachments to e-mails. Those relatives enjoyed them and kept asking me for more. I included some stories of my own that I recalled from growing up in Tobago. This book is a compilation of fifty stories about my family that I want to share with you. I hope that you, too, would enjoy them. Some of the conversations in some of the stories were written in dialect to retain a Caribbean flavor. Caribbean readers should have no problem following what was said, but for those who are unfamiliar with the way the ordinary island person speaks, I have included a key at the end of the book to help you understand what was being said.
| Author | : Joy Castro |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2013-10-01 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0803248717 |
Whenever a memoirist gives a reading, someone in the audience is sure to ask: How did your family react? Revisiting our pasts and exploring our experiences, we often reveal more of our nearest and dearest than they might prefer. This volume navigates the emotional and literary minefields that any writer of family stories or secrets must travel when depicting private lives for public consumption. Essays by twenty-five memoirists, including Faith Adiele, Alison Bechdel, Jill Christman, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rigoberto González, Robin Hemley, Dinty W. Moore, Bich Minh Nguyen, and Mimi Schwartz, explore the fraught territory of family history told from one perspective, which, from another angle in the family drama, might appear quite different indeed. In her introduction to this book, Joy Castro, herself a memoirist, explores the ethical dilemmas of writing about family and offers practical strategies for this tricky but necessary subject. A sustained and eminently readable lesson in the craft of memoir, Family Trouble serves as a practical guide for writers to find their own version of the truth while still respecting family boundaries.
| Author | : J Michael Cleverley |
| Publisher | : Clearfield |
| Total Pages | : 560 |
| Release | : 2020-04-23 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780806359090 |
| Author | : Sergio Troncoso |
| Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2021-04-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 162349964X |
"A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review 2021 Texas Book Festival Featured Book Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds—how the authors or their characters create, or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. Nepantla—or living in the in-between space of the borderland—is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life—the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shifting identities. In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity. Edited by award-winning writer and scholar Sergio Troncoso, this anthology includes works from familiar and acclaimed voices such as David Dorado Romo, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Espinoza, Reyna Grande, and Francisco Cantú, as well as from important new voices, such as Stephanie Li, David Dominguez, and ire’ne lara silva. These are writers who open and expose the in-between places: through or at borders; among the past, present, and future; from tradition to innovation; between languages; in gender; about the wounds of the past and the victories of the present; of life and death. Nepantla Familias shows the quintessential American experience that revives important foundational values through immigrants and the children of immigrants. Here readers will find a glimpse of contemporary Mexican American experience; here, also, readers will experience complexities of the geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders common to us all. Includes the work of David Dorado Romo Reyna Grande Francisco Cantú Rigoberto González Alex Espinoza Domingo Martinez Oscar Cásares Lorraine M. López David Dominguez Stephanie Li Sheryl Luna José Antonio Rodríguez Deborah Paredez Diana Marie Delgado Diana López Severo Perez Octavio Solis ire'ne lara silva Rubén Degollado Helena María Viramontes Daniel Chacón Matt Mendez
| Author | : Elisabeth Sheff |
| Publisher | : Thorntree Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Families |
| ISBN | : 9780991399772 |
Welcome to the polycule: the network created by the interconnections of polyamorous relationships. Just like the molecules that make up all living things, polycules come in diverse forms: large, small, tightly bound, loosely connected, static, ever-changing. How do polycules form, what do they look like, how do they transform through time, and how do they, sometimes, end?
| Author | : Brenda Hudson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2019-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781634892636 |
Family stories help us understand who we are, where we've come from, and where we're going. Strengthening family bonds across generations, they remind us that we will be remembered. Anyone can capture their family stories, and Brenda Hudson makes it easy and fun with Story by Story: 15 Projects to Write Your Family Legacy. All you need to start is a few minutes and one story. From a small list of your favorite things to stories of life's pivotal moments, Hudson walks you through different ways to build a living legacy that will evolve and grow as you work. The best part is, there's no right or wrong way to write your family legacy. You decide! And it doesn't have to stop with you-your whole family can participate. The more you collaborate, the better you'll connect your family's past, present, and future legacy. Projects in Story by Story will help you document: - Family sayings - Self-portraits - Character sketches - Visual diaries - Mementos and heirlooms - Lessons you've learned - And much more! Brenda Hudson is an award-winning teacher and writer. Her passion is helping others express themselves through writing. She lives with her family in St. Paul, Minnesota. For information on her workshops, visit voicedlife.com
| Author | : Laura Pashby |
| Publisher | : Hardie Grant Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2021-10-14 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1787137120 |
Embrace the power of storytelling with Little Stories of Your Life. Start telling your own story, find your creative self and be more mindful. Combining the wellbeing benefits of mindfulness, creativity and daily photography, this book shows you how to use words and photographs to capture precious little moments and how to share these in order to connect with others. Each chapter explores the different ways you can tell your own stories, considers why you might choose to tell them and helps you to create a patchwork of tiny tales about your life, however small they might be. Throughout the book, Laura shares her own personal stories and research that shows you how to tune out of the bigger picture and focus on the everyday. There are exercises to gently guide you through how to journal and harness your inner creativity, as well as tips on improving your photography, photo challenges and writing prompts to get you started. It’s easy to feel that our own lives are not enough, but real lives are not defined by bright, exciting events: we don’t need a grand narrative arc. It’s the stretches of time in between that matter, the tiny moments and the daily choices that make us who we are.
| Author | : Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2019-03-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0141985623 |
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the twentieth century. Poets, journalists, visual artists, musicians, editors, critics, teachers, scientists, politicians, translators: the writers that inhabit these pages represent a dynamic cross section of Italian society, their powerful voices resonating through regional landscapes, private passions and dramatic political events. This wide-ranging selection curated by Jhumpa Lahiri includes well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello alongside many captivating new discoveries. More than a third of the stories featured in this volume have been translated into English for the first time, several of them by Lahiri herself.
| Author | : Deborah Santana |
| Publisher | : Nothing But the Truth So Help |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 9780997296211 |
"An anthology [of prose and poetry] documenting the experiences of women of color at the dawn of the twenty-first century ... whose topics range from the pressures of being the vice-president of a Fortune 500 Company, to escaping the killing fields of Cambodia, to the struggles inside immigration, identity, romance, and self-worth"--Amazon.com.
