Grass Roof, Tin Roof
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 | : Dao Strom |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781417716968 |
This stunning debut novel centers on a Vietnamese family resettling and living in the isolation of California gold country. Strom investigates, in a contemporary context, the myth of westward progress and the consequences of cultural displacement.
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 | : 369 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1640092706 |
"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 | : 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 | : Robert Scharff |
Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780071360586 |
CD-ROM contains: Directory of Internet resources.
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 | : Joel Salatin |
Publisher | : FaithWords |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2016-05-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1455536962 |
From Christian libertarian farmer Joel Salatin, a clarion call to readers to honor the animals and the land, and produce food based on spiritual principles. What on earth is The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs? It's an inspiring call to action for people of faith . . . a heartfelt plea to heed the Bible's guidance . . . . It's an important and thought-provoking explanation of how by simply appreciating the marvelous pigness of pigs, we are celebrating the Glory of God. As a man of deep faith and student of the Bible, and as a respected and successful ecological family farmer, Joel Salatin knows that God created heaven and earth and meant for all living organisms to be true to their nature and their endowed holy purpose. He intended for us to respect and care for His gift of creation, not to ravage and mistreat it for our own pleasure or wealth. The example that inspires the book's title explains what Salatin means: when huge corporate farms confine pigs in cramped and dark pens, inject them with antibiotics and feed them herbicide-saturated food simply to increase profits, they are not respecting them as a creation of God or allowing them to express even their most rudimentary uniqueness - that special role that is part of His design. Every living organism has a God-given uniqueness to its life that must be honored and respected, and too often that is not happening today. Salatin shows us the long overlooked ethics and instructions in the Bible for how to eat, how to shop, how to think about how we farm and feed the world. Through scripture and Biblical stories, he shows us why it's more vital than ever to look to the good book rather than corporate America when feeding the country and your family. Salatin makes a compelling case for Christian stewardship of the earth and how it relates to every action we take regarding our food. He also opens our eyes to a common misconception many Christians may have about environmentalism: it's not a bad thing, and definitely not just the province of secular liberals; it's really a very good thing, part of heeding God's Word. With warmth and with humor, but with no less piercing criticism of the industrial food complex, Salatin brings readers on a fascinating journey of farming, food and faith. Readers will not say grace over their plates the same way ever again.
Author | : Ann Weisgarber |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101190361 |
An award-winning novel with incredible heart, about life on the prairie as it's rarely been seen When Rachel, hired help in a Chicago boardinghouse, falls in love with Isaac, the boardinghouse owner's son, he makes her a bargain: he'll marry her, but only if she gives up her 160 acres from the Homestead Act so he can double his share. She agrees, and together they stake their claim in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands. Fourteen years later, in the summer of 1917, the cattle are bellowing with thirst. It hasn't rained in months, and supplies have dwindled. Pregnant, and struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She is determined to give her surviving children the life they deserve, but she knows that her husband, a fiercely proud former Buffalo Soldier, will never leave his ranch: black families are rare in the West, and land means a measure of equality with the white man. Somehow Rachel must find the strength to do what is right-for herself, and for her children. Reminiscent of The Color Purple as well as the frontier novels of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Willa Cather, The Personal History of Rachel DuPree opens a window on the little-known history of African American homesteaders and gives voice to an extraordinary heroine who embodies the spirit that built America.