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Dream me home safely / edited by Susan Richards Shreve ; foreword by Marian Wright Edelman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Youth.
- Maturation (Psychology).
- United States.
- Maturation (Psychology)--United States.
- Children--United States--Biography.
- Children.
- Youth--United States--Biography.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [2003]
- Summary:
- In the Title Essay of this Extraordinary Keepsake of Childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in." The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, "Your house smells funny," and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters.
- Contents:
- Ars Politica / Julia Alvarez 1
- The Center of the Universe / Tina McElroy Ansa 3
- My Father's Dance / Robert Bausch 8
- from Sweet Summer / Bebe Moore Campbell 15
- Rowing in Amboy / Alan Cheuse 20
- Thread / Stuart Dybek 25
- Parenthood: A Life Sentence / Patricia Elam 32
- A Child's Garden of Verse / Carolyn Ferrell 39
- from The Kingdom of Brooklyn / Merrill Joan Gerber 57
- Saturday Days / Nikki Giovanni 65
- Transgressions / Stephen Goodwin 68
- The Spiral Staircase / Patricia Griffith 73
- Christmas, Alabama, 1962 / Anthony Grooms 82
- Ba-chan's Superstition / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston 96
- Mute in an English-Only World / Chang-Rae Lee 104
- Memphis Years / Beverly Lowry 108
- Spitting Image / Michael Patrick MacDonald 112
- The Bluff / Mary Morris 123
- Toadstools / Bich Minh Nguyen 129
- Birds at Night / Howard Norman 133
- The Gravedigger's Daughter / Joyce Carol Oates 143
- Psychedelic Shack / Lisa Page 150
- Movie Where You Don't See the Monster Until the End / Michael Parker 154
- Innocence Found / Alexs Pate 159
- Summer Coming / Anna Quindlen 168
- Foreigner in Marshfield / Nina Revoyr 172
- The Boy Nobody Knew / Faith Ringgold 179
- Growing Up in St. Louis / Ntozake Shange 182
- Three Women and Me / Susan Richards Shreve 186
- Crick / Susan Straight 192
- The Swimming Pool / Elizabeth Strout 197
- Childhood / Alice Walker 202
- Sitting / John Edgar Wideman 206
- JohnJohn's World / Lois-Ann Yamanaka 216.
- Notes:
- "A Mariner original."
- ISBN:
- 0618379029
- OCLC:
- 52853822
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