The riots / Danielle Cadena Deulen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deulen, Danielle Cadena, 1979-

Series:

Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Essays.

Interpersonal relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen's artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender. In ""Aperture,"" she considers how she has contributed to her autistic brother's isolation from family and from the world. ""Theft"" investigates her mother's romantic stories about conquistadors in the context of the Mexican heritage of her biracial family. Throughout the collection Deulen experiments formally, alternating t

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Still Life with Flashing Lights; Theft; Aperture; Mercy; Early Adulthood; Soliloquies with Strangers; Still Life with Oaks; Intervention; Summer Pageant; Muse; Tornado; Still Life with Sparrow; After the Flood; Adolescence; Fainting; Still Life with Summer Wasps; The Riots; Cadena; Childhood; Still Life with Doldrums; Prodigal Daughter; Hindsight; Still Life with Unfinished House; A Momentary Stay against Confusion; Acknowledgments

Notes:

"Association of Writers and Writing Programs award for creative nonfiction."--Cover.

ISBN:

9786613586223

9781280490996

1280490993

9780820339726

0820339725

OCLC:

826455121