![]() “It’s memoir, yes, but it’s also a journey into the speculative, tunneling back into a series of what ifs and if onlys. ![]() ![]() “As Lane trains her investigative arsenal on her own past, the work achieves the kind of translucence familiar only to great memoirists, as the unbearable brilliance of the author's intellect shines through the tissue of her memories like sunlight through leaves.” -Rain Taxi Review of Books “Through the pain contained in the pages of We Are Bridges, there is always this movement toward hope, as pregnancy connects her ancestors to her offspring.” -Mom Egg Review Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family-and considers how to take back one’s American story. We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. ![]() She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdalene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt's lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town. When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. ![]()
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![]() I didn’t know if Andrew and Sam were going to fight or fuck or both, but I did know you could cut the tension with a knife. I’ve seen the words sweltering and hungry used in the marketing for this book, and yes, those are perfect words because of their multiple meanings. I didn’t even know a book could be so sexy while having so little actual sex in it. This book was dripping with sexual tension. Sometimes you’ll be confused about what’s happening, but that’s because Andrew is a disaster of a character and doesn’t know either. ![]() The writing is fantastic and gorgeous in just the right way to wrap you up in the story without being over-the-top, and the author does an amazing job of putting you into Andrew’s head and showing the mental state he’s in. ![]() This is one of those books that drags you in and drags you under. *I received an audio copy of this book via NetGalley. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a series of deftly drawn scenes, we watch the family grapple with American English (hot dogs and hush puppies?-a complete mystery), American traditions (Thanksgiving turkey?-an even greater mystery, since it tastes like nothing), and American culture (Firoozeh's parents laugh uproariously at Bob Hope on television, although they don't get the jokes even when she translates them into Farsi).Above all, this is an unforgettable story of identity, discovery, and the power of family love. ![]() ![]() Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas's wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer who first sought riches on Bowling for Dollars and in Las Vegas, and later lost his job during the Iranian revolution her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English (nor cared to) her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an army of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and who encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman, becoming part of a one-couple melting pot. More family soon followed, and the clan has been here ever since. ![]() In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you were stunned by Gremlins, the Fornits of "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet" will knock your socks off. Ī boy's sanity is pushed to the edge when he's left alone with the odious corpse of "Gramma". ![]() ![]() The most sublime woman driver on earth offers a man "Mrs. There are some things in attics which are better left alone, things like "The Monkey". Touch "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands," and say your prayers. In the book-length story "The Mist," a supermarket becomes the last bastion of humanity as a peril beyond dimension invades the earth. In the tradition of Poe and Stevenson, of Lovecraft and The Twilight Zone, Stephen King has fused images of fear as old as time with the iconography of contemporary American life to create his own special brand of horror-one that has kept millions of readers turning the pages even as they gasp. The Master at his scarifying best! From heart-pounding terror to the eeriest of whimsy-tales from the outer limits of one of the greatest imaginations of our time!Įvil that breathes and walks and shrieks, brave new worlds and horror shows, human desperation bursting into deadly menace-such are the themes of these astounding works of fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Winter in the Blood is an evocative and unforgettable work of literature that will continue to move and inspire anyone who encounters it.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. ![]() Set on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north-central Montana during the late 1960s, Winter in the Blood follows a nameless Blackfeet and Gros Ventre (A'aninin) man's episodic journey to piece together. It was published by Harper and Row's Native American Publishing Program in 1974. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and Montana's vast emptiness. Winter in the Blood is the debut novel of James Welch. The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance - "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." -Tommy Orange, The Washington Postĭuring his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel, Winter in the Blood, is one of his most enduring works. ![]() |