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Author : Debra Monroe
Release : 2015-11
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 119/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the Outskirts of Normal by : Debra Monroe
Download or read book On the Outskirts of Normal written by Debra Monroe. This book was released on 2015-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A white single mother adopts a black child in south Texas and learns what it means to build a family.
Author : Debra Monroe
Release : 2015-11-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 100/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On the Outskirts of Normal by : Debra Monroe
Download or read book On the Outskirts of Normal written by Debra Monroe. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After moving to a humble cottage outside of a tiny Texas town, Debra Monroe rids herself of an abusive husband, battles sexist contractors and workers as she renovates her home, and finally, after several disheartening letdowns, is able to adopt her beautiful baby daughter, Marie. Though elated that her dream is coming true, Monroe faces trials that befall her not just as a single mother but as a white mother of a black child. In On the Outskirts of Normal, two-time National Book Award nominee Monroe's heart creaks "like china with hairline cracks" each time a racist comment rolls their way or stares linger a little too long in their direction. Though she and her daughter face serious undiagnosed illnesses leading to innumerable, painful doctor visits, Monroe remains steadfast in her dedication to Marie and their small but tight family. Reading On the Outskirts of Normal at times feels like driving through an unwieldy thunderstorm at night on the unlit country roads that snake their way to Monroe's house in the woods; readers will feel her exhaustion but will be buoyed by her ever-present faith and fiery love. Pulitzer Prize winner Madeleine Blais writes that On the Outskirts of Normal is the "real deal: both a literary triumph and a triumph of the heart."
Author : Debra Monroe
Release : 2015
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 740/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis My Unsentimental Education by : Debra Monroe
Download or read book My Unsentimental Education written by Debra Monroe. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both the story of Monroe's steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working-class girl ends up far from where she began.
Author : Stef Jansen
Release : 2015-06-01
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 513/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Yearnings in the Meantime by : Stef Jansen
Download or read book Yearnings in the Meantime written by Stef Jansen. This book was released on 2015-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the book’s protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, they felt they were collectively stuck in a time warp where nothing seemed to be as it should be. Starting from everyday concerns, this book paints a compassionate yet critical portrait of people’s sense that they were in limbo, trapped in a seemingly endless “Meantime.” Ethnographically investigating yearnings for “normal lives” in the European semi-periphery, it proposes fresh analytical tools to explore how the time and place in which we are caught shape our hopes and fears.
Author : Rina Kramer
Release : 2016-10-20
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 90X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis It Is Normal to Be Normal by : Rina Kramer
Download or read book It Is Normal to Be Normal written by Rina Kramer. This book was released on 2016-10-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we struggle to survive the chaos and confusion of the 21st century, we must each reach our own truth and perspective on life. We must gain knowledge and the wisdom to put it to good use. We want to be accepted, to be loved, to feel free to be what we are, and in so doing we strive to be “normal,” even if it doesn’t fit our personal agenda. But by being kind, respectful, and tolerant, one by one, we can all make a difference. It Is Normal to Be Normal is an unpretentious yet powerful philosophy that strives to make sense out of this tumultuous world!
