Sister to Sister includes essays and stories by: Meena Alexander, Robin Behn, Louise DeSalvo, Erika Duncan, Maria Flook, Patricia Foster, Bonnie Friedman, Donna Gordo, Lucy Grealy, Joy Harjo, Bell Hooks, Pam Houston, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Lori Hope Norris, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Mona Simpson, Debra Spark, Joan Wickersham, and Joy Williams."
Sister to Sister includes essays and stories by: Meena Alexander, Robin Behn, Louise DeSalvo, Erika Duncan, Maria Flook, Patricia Foster, Bonnie ...
A mulitcultural anthology of fiction andnon-fiction literary narratives which addresses thepsychological and political aspects of a woman's body intoday's culture. An important and much-neededbook for women who seek to understand their bodiesand find independent, imaginative ways to cope withaging, beauty expectations beauty expectations, and ethnic comparisons."
A mulitcultural anthology of fiction andnon-fiction literary narratives which addresses thepsychological and political aspects of a woman's body intod...
Patricia Foster's lyrical yet often painful memoir explores the life of a white middle-class girl who rew up in rural south Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s, a time and place that did not tolerate deviation from traditional gender roles. Her mother raised Foster and her sister as "honorary boys," girls with the ambition of men but the temperament of women.
An unhappy, intelligent woman who kept a heartbreaking secret from everyone close to her, Foster's mother was driven by a repressed rage that fed her obsession for middle-class respectability. By the time...
Patricia Foster's lyrical yet often painful memoir explores the life of a white middle-class girl who rew up in rural south Alabama in the 19...
Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile." These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken and a model for anyone who has contemplated self-investigation through autobiographical writing.
The book's three sections each convey a stage of Foster's journey--still ongoing--toward new levels of insight and maturity. "Inside the Girls' Room" takes us back to Foster's life in the rural South from the 1950s...
Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's imp...
Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's impressionistic and fragile." These eleven closely linked personal essays are at once an absorbing chronicle of a life fully undertaken and a model for anyone who has contemplated self-investigation through autobiographical writing.
The book's three sections each convey a stage of Foster's journey--still ongoing--toward new levels of insight and maturity. "Inside the Girls' Room" takes us back to Foster's life in the rural South from the 1950s...
Writing about oneself, says Patricia Foster, "engages in truth but depends on the imagination, on the life just beneath the skin, a life that's imp...
My Story, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, is a human and personal story. Patricia's Memoir covers much of her life, and of the Twentieth Century, including the Post War Years, seen from a young person's perspective. This account of her early life is vivid, it will make you laugh, and it will make you cry. The style is conversational, and is all the more credible for it's lack of exaggeration. This is a straightforward story, well told. It tells of amazing Divine Interventions, of Spiritual Guides, Helpers and Guardian Angels, who have accompanied Patricia through every step of her journey. This...
My Story, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, is a human and personal story. Patricia's Memoir covers much of her life, and of the Twentieth Century, includin...
Jeanette is not living anymore. She's surviving, running, hiding. All that she knew vanished and what remains doesn't make much sense anymore. Freedom and trust are as difficult to find as warmth and shelter in this desolated landscape. Through her strange encounters, she tries to piece together a frightening puzzle. Pushed to the brink, some emerge as heroes, others plunge into madness. Jeanette is skating on that thin line between both. Fear, doubt, more running... With her trusty companion Rufus by her side, she refuses to give up. She sees things, impossible things. Things that should not...
Jeanette is not living anymore. She's surviving, running, hiding. All that she knew vanished and what remains doesn't make much sense anymore. Freedom...
Jeanette is not living anymore. She's surviving, running, hiding. All that she knew vanished and what remains doesn't make much sense anymore. Freedom and trust are as difficult to find as warmth and shelter in this desolated landscape. Through her strange encounters, she tries to piece together a frightening puzzle. Pushed to the brink, some emerge as heroes, others plunge into madness. Jeanette is skating on that thin line between both. Fear, doubt, more running... With her trusty companion Rufus by her side, she refuses to give up. She sees things, impossible things. Things that should not...
Jeanette is not living anymore. She's surviving, running, hiding. All that she knew vanished and what remains doesn't make much sense anymore. Freedom...
Yellowstone National Park. For years, a symbol of vacation time for Americans traveling from all the over the country to marvel at its beauty and treasures. But in the new world first explored inComa Wagon, it is now a faint hope of salvation for weary survivors. Meet Amos, Daniel, Gabe & Reggie, four individuals whose paths would never have crossed before all this happened. Brought together by chance, or fate, they form a bickering crew of hunters. With a familiar loyal dog in tow, they fight back against the beasts... Tired of being on the run, they organize traps to rid the land of the...
Yellowstone National Park. For years, a symbol of vacation time for Americans traveling from all the over the country to marvel at its beauty and trea...
Yellowstone National Park. For years, a symbol of vacation time for Americans traveling from all the over the country to marvel at its beauty and treasures. But in the new world first explored inComa Wagon, it is now a faint hope of salvation for weary survivors. Meet Amos, Daniel, Gabe & Reggie, four individuals whose paths would never have crossed before all this happened. Brought together by chance, or fate, they form a bickering crew of hunters. With a familiar loyal dog in tow, they fight back against the beasts... Tired of being on the run, they organize traps to rid the land of the...
Yellowstone National Park. For years, a symbol of vacation time for Americans traveling from all the over the country to marvel at its beauty and trea...
