Aunt lute 1991 (3 resultados)

ISBN 1-879960-04-4. Trade Paperback. First Printing thus. Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition with edge wear.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Resisting the onslaught of gringos coming to live in their southwestern border town, Bale and Maggie develop a friendship based on their common struggle. But they differ in their future possibilities: his is closed by poverty and family tragedy; hers is opened by her relationship with her Yaqui Indian grandmother, Adela Sewa. Maggie's grandmother teaches her the ways of the land and her own form of spirituality as tools for survival. Her stories, or cuentos, reach back into the nineteenth century, illuminating a way of life that has disappeared, but which can still provide hope and continuity to a displaced people.Edna Escamill has.wrought a landmark book that will stand beyond its decade. The future gestates in these pages. The present is here in passionate immediacy. It is one of the great books of 'place'-poor town, desert, mountain-recreated so vividly, every memory-sense alive. Its people.are written differently with such complexity, fullness of dimension, they become unforgettable.a book absolutely necessary to our growing national vision.- Tillie Olsen.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Carole Rio, an artist running from her past, is invited to a small Texas border town to paint murals in a church-but the church has burned down in a catastrophic fire. Carole becomes the catalyst for the town's release of its collective guilt, and as the community rebuilds and heals, she faces her own terrifying nightmares and confronts her sexual identity.Send My Roots Rainreveals how memory and land can form potent ties, and how unexpected change has the power to heal and transform lives.…