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The Strength of Water
This book has everything I want from a memoir: honesty, self-reflection, learning more about the author’s cultural and social upbringing, stories about resiliency, and more. I do wish that Karin Jensen had made clear in the prologue or in an author’s note at the beginning that she was […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Good Books, Immigrants, Race relations, Review of the Month, Women's rights
Tags: Author of Color, Cultures, Good Books, Immigrants, Race relations, Review of the Month, Women's rights
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Biography
All God’s Sparrows
Many people take to heart the notion of charity, or performing helpful deeds, as a prerogative of simply being human. For every one person we learn or hear about, thousands go unsung. Uncovering the life and deeds of Mary Fields, a most unexpected independent woman of the Western […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Harvesting History While Farming the Flats
Near the beginning of Harvesting History, a memoir of land and filmmaking and family, it is 1969, and Muriel Aggie Murch, a nurse, and her filmmaker husband Walter have moved north from Los Angeles, where Walter Murch had attended USC film school with a cadre of friends who […]
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An Interview with Mariam Pirbhai
The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, Pirbhai is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches and specializes in postcolonial studies and creative writing. […]
