Author | : Dao Strom |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618145591 |
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Author | : Dao Strom |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780618145591 |
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Author | : Dao Strom |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2003-01-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547972830 |
A Vietnamese family flees its war-torn home and resettles in California, in a novel that offers a “brilliant exploration of exile, loss, and identity” (Robert Olen Butler). Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Grass Roof, Tin Roof begins with the story of Tran, a Vietnamese writer facing government persecution, who flees her homeland during the exodus of 1975 and brings her two children to the West. Here, she marries a Danish American man who has survived a different war. He promises understanding and guidance—but the psychic consequences of his past soon hinder his relationships with the family, as the children, for whom the war is now a distant shadow, struggle to understand the world around them on their own terms. In delicate, innovative prose, Strom’s characters experience the collision of cultures and the spiritual aftermath of war on the most visceral level. Grass Roof, Tin Roof is “an affecting study on the slippery nature of home” (Los Angeles Times). “[Strom] explores the mysteries of loss, culture and identity, with skill, poignancy and imagination.” —Detroit Free Press
Author | : James Lee Burke |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2008-06-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1416548505 |
Follows the adventures of detective Dave Robicheaux, who struggles with alcoholism and rage while fighting to protect lives in Katrina-devastated New Orleans.
Author | : Dao Strom |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1640092714 |
"The book is informed by the Vietnamese immigrations of the nineteen–seventies but is filled with social observation of contemporary middle–class culture and indie sensibility . . . Quietly beautiful, Strom's stories are hip without being ironic." —The New Yorker When The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys was first published in 2006, it was groundbreaking in its depiction of contemporary young Vietnamese women living in the United States, centering their ordinary lives as mothers, lovers, friends, and daughters against the backdrop of immigration and assimilation. Available now for the first time in paperback and featuring an introduction by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud and a new preface by the author, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys is a beautifully written, psychologically astute foray into the rite of female passage.
Author | : Stephen Fisher |
Publisher | : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2020-05-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 109802267X |
I want the world to know how big our God really is. This is why I'm sharing the reality of the life that my wife and I have lived. We have not always been in ideal situations, and I want the world to know there is a real God who holds us, his precious children, in the palm of his hand. When he speaks, he will direct our paths. He will make our paths straight. May the glory of our resurrected Lord Jesus Christ lift you up, hide you in the shadow of his wing, and give you the grace to carry on. He is my God! May the Lord bless you and keep you. Stephen
Author | : Dao Strom |
Publisher | : Mpmp / Press Otherwise |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Authors |
ISBN | : 9780990955511 |
"A memoir in text, image, and song. In this unique hybrid work, author/musician Dao Strom navigates the spaces between shores, mother and father, two cultures. The daughter of writers, she fled Vietnam with her mother at the end of the war. It was not until years later that she learned her father was still alive and had spent a decade in Communist "reeducation" camps as persecution for his work as a writer in the pre-1975 era of Saigon. This rift--caught between the forward-looking mother who severed ties with the past, and the only tenuous presence of a father who could not turn away from the past--is the initiating ethos behind this memoir, which renders itself also as an experiment in literary multimedia, combining text, image, and song to express the nuances and buried emotions of aftermath" --
Author | : Steven Frye |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131657802X |
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to one of the most vibrant and expansive traditions in world literature. The American West occupies a unique place in the global imagination, and the literature it produced transcends the category of 'region' in theme and form. Written by prominent international scholars, the essays cover a diverse group of key texts and authors, including major figures in the Native American, Hispanic, Asian American, and African American movements. Treatments range from environmental and ecopoetic to transnational and transcultural, reflecting the richness of the field. This volume places the literature in deep historical context and features a chronology and a bibliography for further reading. It will be an essential guide for students of literature of the American West and of American literature generally.
Author | : Tina Powell |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1648894380 |
As people migrate, they face the need to create a stable space within a disconcertingly unfamiliar environment. This experience of creating new spaces opens opportunities for positive transcultural connections; however, these opportunities can also serve as the disciplining of the migrant body. This text focuses on the movement of bodies in transnational communities and the formation of domestic and communal spaces that provide respite from migratory paths, negotiate transnational relationships, or establish a new home. In doing so, we explore literary texts that question, challenge, and deepen our understanding of the experience of migration through the use of space and place. The texts in question examine three levels of transnational spaces: intimate spaces such as family, personal growth, or sexuality; inherited spaces reflected in generational conflicts, religious identity, and inherited histories; and national spaces that look at issues of broader national identities. The texts we examine engage with transnational communities within the United States, and the ways in which narratives reimagine new space to negotiate change and create new norms. These narratives can sometimes bridge both cultures or can sometimes result in a violent sense of displacement. Each chapter problematizes a different aspect of transcultural adaptation, and the geographic ties of each community focus reflect the multicultural reality of the U.S., with connections to Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America.
Author | : Huping Ling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2015-03-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 131747645X |
With overview essays and more than 400 A-Z entries, this exhaustive encyclopedia documents the history of Asians in America from earliest contact to the present day. Organized topically by group, with an in-depth overview essay on each group, the encyclopedia examines the myriad ethnic groups and histories that make up the Asian American population in the United States. "Asian American History and Culture" covers the political, social, and cultural history of immigrants from East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Pacific Islands, and their descendants, as well as the social and cultural issues faced by Asian American communities, families, and individuals in contemporary society. In addition to entries on various groups and cultures, the encyclopedia also includes articles on general topics such as parenting and child rearing, assimilation and acculturation, business, education, and literature. More than 100 images round out the set.