Book Description
Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.
Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780816522705
Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother, Urrea moved to San Diego at age three. In this memoir of his childhood, Urrea describes his experiences growing up in the barrio and his search for cultural identity.
Author : Sean Stewart
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2000-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780613264105
Magical tale of the unhappy things that happen to a hero who tries but fails in living happily ever after.
Author : Mark Slouka
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393292312
"I have never before read anything except Nabokov’s Speak, Memory that so relentlessly and shrewdly exhausted the kindness and cruelty of recollection’s shaping devices." —Geoffrey Wolff Born in Czechoslovakia, Mark Slouka’s parents survived the Nazis only to have to escape the Communist purges after the war. Smuggled out of their own country, the newlyweds joined a tide of refugees moving from Innsbruck to Sydney to New York, dragging with them a history of blood and betrayal that their son would be born into. From World War I to the present, Slouka pieces together a remarkable story of refugees and war, displacement and denial—admitting into evidence memories, dreams, stories, the lies we inherit, and the lies we tell—in an attempt to reach his mother, the enigmatic figure at the center of the labyrinth. Her story, the revelation of her life-long burden and the forty-year love affair that might have saved her, shows the way out of the maze.
Author : Zaria Garrison
Publisher : Urban Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,3 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622860861
Semaj Matthews is a private detective whose life revolves around helping people locate their lost loved ones. The one person he's been unsuccessful in finding is his own birth father, but the reason is that he never wanted to find him. He often tells himself that he doesn't care. He's become a successful man in spite of the fact that his only male role models were the great dads he watched on television each week. In the midst of planning his wedding to the love of his life, Semaj receives an anonymous tip that turns everything he's ever believed upside down. The caller tells him the name of his father, and he's shocked to learn that it's a man he's admired his entire life—America's favorite TV Dad, Wayne James. Frustrated, Semaj lashes out at the world and finds himself on the wrong side of the law, where only the Heavenly Father can save him and his earthly father.
Author : Tewodros Fekadu
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781935248262
An abandoned Ethiopian boy fights for more than mere survival: acceptance, education, and a life beyond poverty and war.
Author : Cathy Glass
Publisher : HarperElement
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780008187569
Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can't he stay with his present carers for the last month? He's already had many moves since coming into care as a toddler and he'll only be with her a short while before he goes to live with his permanent adoptive family. But the present carers are expecting a baby and the foster mother isn't coping, so Alex goes to live with Cathy. He settles easily and is very much looking forward to having a forever family of his own. The introductions and move to his adoptive family go well. But Alex is only with them for a week when problems begin. What happens next is both shocking and upsetting, and calls into question the whole adoption process.
Author : Luis Urrea
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0385484194
By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists, and relief workers, fearsome coyotes, and their desperate clientele. In 16 indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds of Mexico and the United States—and ignored by both. The result is a startling and memorable work of first-person reportage.
Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0812992792
The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.
Author : Percival Mayberry (pseud.)
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 1851
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Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 23,64 MB
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1619024829
From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil’s Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird’s Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself. Mixing lyricism and colloquial voices, mysticism and the daily grind, Urrea explores duality and the concept of blurring borders in a melting pot society.