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Author: Reyna Grande Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451661800 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
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In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
Author: Reyna Grande Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451661800 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
In this inspirational and unflinchingly honest memoir, acclaimed author Reyna Grande describes her childhood torn between the United States and Mexico, and shines a light on the experiences, fears, and hopes of those who choose to make the harrowing journey across the border. Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this “compelling...unvarnished, resonant” (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to “El Otro Lado” (The Other Side) in pursuit of the American dream, Reyna and her siblings are forced into the already overburdened household of their stern grandmother. When their mother at last returns, Reyna prepares for her own journey to “El Otro Lado” to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. Funny, heartbreaking, and lyrical, The Distance Between Us poignantly captures the confusion and contradictions of childhood, reminding us that the joys and sorrows we experience are imprinted on the heart forever, calling out to us of those places we first called home. Also available in Spanish as La distancia entre nosotros.
Author: Kathleen M. Brown Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 1512823287 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 457
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Undoing Slavery excavates cultural, political, medical, and legal history to understand the abolitionist focus on the body on its own terms. Motivated by their conviction that the physical form of the human body was universal and faced with the growing racism of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, abolitionists in North America and Britain focused on undoing slavery's harm to the bodies of the enslaved. Their pragmatic focus on restoring the bodily integrity and wellbeing of enslaved people threw up many unexpected challenges. This book explores those challenges. Slavery exploited the bodies of men and women differently: enslaved women needed to be acknowledged as mothers rather than as reproducers of slave property, and enslaved men needed to claim full adult personhood without triggering white fears about their access to male privilege. Slavery's undoing became more fraught by the 1850s, moreover, as federal Fugitive Slave Law and racist medicine converged. The reach of the federal government across the borders of free states and theories about innate racial difference collapsed the distinctions between enslaved and emancipated people of African descent, making militant action necessary. Escaping to so-called "free" jurisdictions, refugees from slavery demonstrated that a person could leave the life of slavery behind. But leaving behind the enslaved body, the fleshy archive of trauma and injury, proved impossible. Bodies damaged by slavery needed urgent physical care as well as access to medical knowledge untainted by racist science. As the campaign to end slavery revealed, legal rights alone, while necessary, were not sufficient either to protect or heal the bodies of African-descended people from the consequences of slavery and racism.
Author: Carl H. Klaus Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1587296691 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 192
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Sorrow is “not a state but a process” that needs “not a map but a history. . . . There is something new to be chronicled every day,” writes C. S. Lewis in A Grief Observed. When Carl Klaus's wife of thirty-five years died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, right before Thanksgiving in 2002, he took the only road toward recovery that made sense to him: he started writing letters to her, producing a unique history of grief, solace, and love. His vivid and thoughtful letters will resonate with everyone whose loss confronts them with emotional, psychological, and philosophical questions for which there are no easy answers.During his first year without Kate, Carl writes himself into the life that comes after the life he loved. From days of grief in the darkness of a midwestern winter, to springtime, with a return to life in the garden and a memorial service for Kate on a sunny afternoon, to fall, with a pilgrimage to their favorite vacation spot in Hawaii, Carl documents his year-long experience of remembering, meditating, and evolving a new life. Individually his letters provide the insights of a master diarist; collectively, they have the arc of a master essayist. Recording the full range of mourning from intense shock to moments of exceptional affirmation, Klaus's stories and reflections on loss bear witness to universal truths about the first and most significant year of mourning.
Author: Stan Drawdy Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1685172873 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 258
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"Thank you for a wonderful collection of memories from growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. The Greenway Drive kids were unique in their creative ways to enjoy each other with the support of great parents. Whether or not you have connections to the young people who grew up on Greenway Drive, you will enjoy this book." Wilbur Vaughan, retired administrator, Darlington County School District "Greenway Drive is a fast-moving, smartly detailed compilation of stories detailing the lives of a community of children, friends-for-life, and adults who created fine citizens for today's world; entirely engaging and informative -- a witty and spirited book." Henry Grady Weaver, III, author of Fire Creeping in Short Grass "The best thing about Darlington, South Carolina, is its people. Greenway Drive is a factual account of the relationships and lifelong friendships created in one of its neighborhoods. This quality of life still exists in Darlington where people continue to work, play, and worship together." Ronnie Ward, Lifelong citizen and former Mayor of Darlington (1984-2004) "Whether your childhood was magical, or you dreamed of one that might have been, Greenway Drive will envelop you in the warmth of a world of friends and families sharing a rich and rarified life in a small town. Because God names every family, Greenway Drive is proof that He sometimes concentrates them in communities, so that life together seems to be heaven on earth. You will find yourself hoping that heaven holds a Greenway Drive and that at least for a portion of your eternity, God will let you take up residence there." Dr. B. Jane Hursey, Retired Educator
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