" The only thing that ll last forever is my Thirst . . . . " So says Abel Crofton as he explores the streets and canals of Amsterdam. A New York tunnel worker who s struggling to stay sober after years of alcoholism, Abel is searching for the mother he s never known. Despite having few clues as to her whereabouts, he soon finds a bureaucratic trail that takes him to Haarlem, the Dutch town from which the famed African-American neighborhood takes its name. As Abel ventures into more new territory, he also takes on his identity as a Black man, his rough childhood in Harlem, New...
" The only thing that ll last forever is my Thirst . . . . " So says Abel Crofton as he explores the streets and canals of Amsterdam. A New ...
Twelve year old Leila knows little more of the world than the view from her family's mud-brick hut on the steep slopes of the Atlas Mountains. Her greatest hope is to marry the son of the village shopkeeper and to live like all the women who came before her. Leila's dreams are destroyed in one night when three strangers take her in payment for her father's debts. Thus begins her long journey into silence: the silence of a child sold to a brothel in a distant city. The silence of a young woman passed on to a judge who exploits her as his servant. The silence of a barely literate woman who...
Twelve year old Leila knows little more of the world than the view from her family's mud-brick hut on the steep slopes of the Atlas Mountains. Her gre...
