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A coming-of-age collection of stories revolving around three sisters in
Uganda, Tropical Fish is a beautifully written account of the possibilities of
life for women in this country during and after the reign of Idi Amin. The upper
middle class Ugandan voices of the characters is not often covered in
contemporary literature as many attempt to negate that there are upper
middle class Africans. Baingana dispels this by telling stories of women like
herself.
Uganda, Tropical Fish is a beautifully written account of the possibilities of
life for women in this country during and after the reign of Idi Amin. The upper
middle class Ugandan voices of the characters is not often covered in
contemporary literature as many attempt to negate that there are upper
middle class Africans. Baingana dispels this by telling stories of women like
herself.
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Tropical Fish: Tales From Entebbe
Doreen Baingana
ISBN: 0-7679-2510-6
Doreen Baingana
ISBN: 0-7679-2510-6
There was a time when the Igbo people in Nigeria ceded from the country to
start their own nation. The bloody three year war that followed is the setting
for this fictional, yet historically accurate, sophomore work from the Igbo
Nigerian born author of Bruised Hibiscus. Go too
http://www.halfofayellowsun.com for more information.
start their own nation. The bloody three year war that followed is the setting
for this fictional, yet historically accurate, sophomore work from the Igbo
Nigerian born author of Bruised Hibiscus. Go too
http://www.halfofayellowsun.com for more information.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 1-4000-4416-2
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 1-4000-4416-2
A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS is a breathtaking story set against the
volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to
the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence,
fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of
two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep
of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, find
happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them.
volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years - from the Soviet invasion to
the reign of the Taliban to post-Taliban rebuilding - that puts the violence,
fear, hope, and faith of this country in intimate, human terms. It is a tale of
two generations of characters brought jarringly together by the tragic sweep
of war, where personal lives - the struggle to survive, raise a family, find
happiness - are inextricable from the history playing out around them.
MY DREAMS OUT IN THE STREET: A NOVEL. Harsh realism mixes with
poetic despair as the characters in Addonizio's second novel try to climb out of
the hells of their own making. Rita Louise Jackson is homeless at 24, trying to
get off heroin and find her husband, Jimmy D'Angelo, who left her after a fight.
Rita wanders through contemporary San Francisco, sometimes drunk,
sometimes strung out, turning tricks or panhandling when she needs money,
all the while haunted by memories of her murdered mother and of her time with
Jimmy. As she contemplates ways to turn her life around, an unwelcome
opportunity arises when she sees a body being taken out of a seedy hotel. The
murderer spots her and promises to come after her. The ensuing fear brings
private investigator Gary Shepard into her life. Jimmy, meanwhile, is finding
something like success as a waiter at a swanky restaurant.
poetic despair as the characters in Addonizio's second novel try to climb out of
the hells of their own making. Rita Louise Jackson is homeless at 24, trying to
get off heroin and find her husband, Jimmy D'Angelo, who left her after a fight.
Rita wanders through contemporary San Francisco, sometimes drunk,
sometimes strung out, turning tricks or panhandling when she needs money,
all the while haunted by memories of her murdered mother and of her time with
Jimmy. As she contemplates ways to turn her life around, an unwelcome
opportunity arises when she sees a body being taken out of a seedy hotel. The
murderer spots her and promises to come after her. The ensuing fear brings
private investigator Gary Shepard into her life. Jimmy, meanwhile, is finding
something like success as a waiter at a swanky restaurant.
Getting undressed for the dreaded seventh-grade gym class. Feeling
fascinated with, yet disgusted by, the fashion magazines full of perfect,
unattainable bodies. Enduring the pain of a bikini wax or suffering the
ramifications of overplucked brows.
Like all women, the contributors to The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the
Sweater have been there and lived to tell the tale. With laugh-out-loud
essays on such topics as the hell of puberty; fashion errors and triumphs;
rolls, jiggles, and dimples; the positives and pitfalls of cosmetic surgery; and
beauty standards across different races and cultures, readers will feel that
they are sitting down with their girlfriends for a funny, honest, and
thought-provoking conversation about our complex relationships with our
bodies. With smarts, wit, and style, this collection captures the double bind
of beauty and body image that women contend with each day.
Seal Press (June 1, 2007)
ISBN-10: 158005210X
ISBN-13: 978-1580052108
fascinated with, yet disgusted by, the fashion magazines full of perfect,
unattainable bodies. Enduring the pain of a bikini wax or suffering the
ramifications of overplucked brows.
Like all women, the contributors to The Bigger the Better, the Tighter the
Sweater have been there and lived to tell the tale. With laugh-out-loud
essays on such topics as the hell of puberty; fashion errors and triumphs;
rolls, jiggles, and dimples; the positives and pitfalls of cosmetic surgery; and
beauty standards across different races and cultures, readers will feel that
they are sitting down with their girlfriends for a funny, honest, and
thought-provoking conversation about our complex relationships with our
bodies. With smarts, wit, and style, this collection captures the double bind
of beauty and body image that women contend with each day.
Seal Press (June 1, 2007)
ISBN-10: 158005210X
ISBN-13: 978-1580052108
Princess Diana was "the best thing to happen" to the British royals "since the
restoration of Charles II," concludes Brown in this dishy biography, and the
royal family's error was not realizing that. It's tough to pigeonhole a peacock, but
Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, tries, calling the late
Diana a diva, "a siren of subversion" who "even as a small girl... had been
dangerous when hurt." Brown shows how Diana excelled at manipulating the
media; her in-laws could only stand by helplessly as she captivated the
cameras by batting her eyes or lowering them in her trademark "Shy Di" look.
So enamored of herself was Diana, according to Brown, that she claimed not to
understand why a certain cardiologist preferred his work at the hospital to
seeing after her. Brown interviewed more than 250 people, from Mikhail
Baryshnikov (who found the late Princess "so much more beautiful than any
photographs or TV") to a friend of Diana's late mother, who says that mum
disapproved of her daughter's too hasty royal marriage and tried talking her out
of it. In the battle of unpleasant revelations made by both sides in the
Di-Charles battles, Brown speculates that Squidgy-gate was the product of MI5
bugging the royal phones. Brown gives her book a tabloid-lingo touch and can
fall into melodrama (while everyoneo saw Di's life as a Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical, the author says, it "was becoming more like something
out of Hitchcock"), but then, given the nature of the subject matter, a little
melodrama is entirely fitting. However, the final portrait of Diana as a heroine
who broke free of the royal bonds and changed the monarchy forever will be
familiar to most readers.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved.
restoration of Charles II," concludes Brown in this dishy biography, and the
royal family's error was not realizing that. It's tough to pigeonhole a peacock, but
Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, tries, calling the late
Diana a diva, "a siren of subversion" who "even as a small girl... had been
dangerous when hurt." Brown shows how Diana excelled at manipulating the
media; her in-laws could only stand by helplessly as she captivated the
cameras by batting her eyes or lowering them in her trademark "Shy Di" look.
So enamored of herself was Diana, according to Brown, that she claimed not to
understand why a certain cardiologist preferred his work at the hospital to
seeing after her. Brown interviewed more than 250 people, from Mikhail
Baryshnikov (who found the late Princess "so much more beautiful than any
photographs or TV") to a friend of Diana's late mother, who says that mum
disapproved of her daughter's too hasty royal marriage and tried talking her out
of it. In the battle of unpleasant revelations made by both sides in the
Di-Charles battles, Brown speculates that Squidgy-gate was the product of MI5
bugging the royal phones. Brown gives her book a tabloid-lingo touch and can
fall into melodrama (while everyoneo saw Di's life as a Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical, the author says, it "was becoming more like something
out of Hitchcock"), but then, given the nature of the subject matter, a little
melodrama is entirely fitting. However, the final portrait of Diana as a heroine
who broke free of the royal bonds and changed the monarchy forever will be
familiar to most readers.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All
rights reserved.
Hardcover: 560 pages
Publisher: Doubleday (June 12, 2007)
# ISBN-10: 0385517084
# ISBN-13: 978-0385517089
Publisher: Doubleday (June 12, 2007)
# ISBN-10: 0385517084
# ISBN-13: 978-0385517089
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