All the Women Inside Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All the Women Inside Me write by Jana Elhassan. This book was released on 2022-12-07. All the Women Inside Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shortlisted for the International Prize of Arabic Fiction Surviving a cold childhood, overshadowed by her parents’ unhappiness and their distant relationship to her, Sahar expects to escape through marriage when she meets the compelling and charming Sami, who is interested in every detail of her life. But what seemed at first to be his loving interest rapidly becomes controlling and ultimately abusive. Sahar yearns for a way out of her intertwined experiences of loss and loneliness. In All the Women Inside Me, Jana Elhassan presents an intricate psychological portrait of a woman, as well as the complexities of interpersonal relationships. The novel’s innovative structure allows it to plumb psychological and philosophical depths beyond the specific characters revealing a profound humanity. Sahar’s father is the lapsed leftist who masks his boredom by busying himself with great causes. Her depressed mother’s nerves are as delicate as the crystal she keeps immaculately polished in her home. A charlatan sheikh trades in religious magic, making a profit off of people’s misery. A boyfriend leaves his great love to marry a “more appropriate” good girl. Sahar navigates her way through so many relationships, ill-prepared by her parents and unhappy childhood home. Her imagination is what allows her to act out all of the desires she has been denied throughout her whole life, from her childhood to her abusive marriage. But she also finds solace in her best friend, Hala, who has faced her own difficult childhood and adolescence and later a series of destructive relationships. At the same time that this novel is able to capture the intensity of emotions and experiences in women’s lives, it is not merely a story about the power of imagination to enrich the lives of oppressed women. Elhassan’s novel is a stark appraisal of how far women are pushed and the length to which women will go to escape a reality that is rotten at the core.
Inside of Me
Inside of Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside of Me write by Shellie R. Warren. This book was released on 2004-06. Inside of Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After multiple abortions and deep depression, Shellie Warren found healing and recovery in God. She draws young women who are dealing with sexual misuse to a place where they can be real and find wholeness and healing.
The Woman Inside of Me
The Woman Inside of Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman Inside of Me write by Jae Escoto. This book was released on 2019-05-20. The Woman Inside of Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jae Escoto is a Filipino trans man who has performed spoken word poetry and competed in poetry slam competitions since 2006. Jae holds a bachelor's degree from California State University San Marcos, double-majoring in Literature and Writing and Women's Studies, and minoring in Philosophy. Jae also holds a master's degree in Women's Studies from San Diego State University. The voices in this book are representative of the author and the woman who lives inside of him (narrated in italics) as they journey through their transition from woman to man."The Woman Inside Of Me" is Jae Escoto's daring narrative to take us into the struggles of becoming our fiercest selves. Everything that I have witnessed in Escoto's spoken word work on stage is in this collection, an epic slam poem with an insightful self-probing that moves the reader to haunting depths and breathtaking heights. Here is a literary work that enfolds with layers of poetic passages and dialogue that are sharp as truth, a truly Filipinx work that explodes the foundation of genders and what it means to love and its fragility. A stunning piece of art from beginning to end, intense and full of glorious epiphanies." -Regie Cabico, Poet & Publisher Capturing Fire Press "In this multigenre work, Jae Escoto chronicles the year he comes out as a trans man and prepares himself for hormone treatments. The dual and dueling voices in The Woman Inside of Me speak with uncertainty, fear, anger, pain, determination, compassion, and love. Escoto's language, tonal shifts, and multiple genres evoke an immediacy that positions the reader as witness unable and unwilling to look away from his wonderfully terrible struggle to be 'unapologetically' he/him." --- Catherine Cucinella, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (retired) California State University San Marcos; author, Poetics of the Body: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Chin, and Marilyn Hacker (Palgrave). "In his electrifying debut book, Jae Escoto plunges the reader deep into the personal dialogue underlying his journey to live as his fullest self. He makes it impossible for us to see our world as separate from his story, or from the many complicated stories that follow us every day. Escoto's genius is his emotional accuracy. He pens a stunningly authentic voyage all his own. In this, he empowers all of us to breathe more of our own air into our own lives, regardless of what already sits inside of us." -- Matt Storm, transgender artist and curator, leadership team member of the LGBTQ Caucus of the Society for Photographic Education, inaugural fellow of STABLE Arts
The Enemy Inside Me
The Enemy Inside Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Enemy Inside Me write by Brandi Benson. This book was released on 2020-10-12. The Enemy Inside Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brandi Benson had only recently come into her new life as a soldier in the U.S. Army when she was sent to wartime Iraq, just months after basic training. She forms a mental picture of the threats she might face, composed of M16s, hand grenades, and land mines. Her first encounter with a dangerous threat comes during an aeroplane ride to a hospital in Germany and ironically propels her toward an internal battle that leaves her reeling in shock. To Brandi's surprise, this threat does not appear in the form of men with machine guns, but on a medical scan that reads, Ewing's Sarcoma. Once a vibrant 24-year old wearing the picture of fitness and perfect health, Brandi faces a different type of war that requires new weapons: hope, faith, and strength.The Enemy Inside Me is a poignant, yet true account of a young soldier's fight with cancer, that begins miles away from enemy lines. Her journey is a gripping reminder that every moment is a gift and every breath is a blessing.
Hill Women
Hill Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hill Women write by Cassie Chambers. This book was released on 2021-01-12. Hill Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After rising from poverty to earn two Ivy League degrees, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong “hill women” who raised and inspired her, and whose values have the potential to rejuvenate a struggling region. “Destined to be compared to Hillbilly Elegy and Educated.”—BookPage (starred review) “A gritty, warm love letter to Appalachian communities and the resourceful women who lead them.”—Slate Nestled in the Appalachian mountains, Owsley County, Kentucky, is one of the poorest places in the country. Buildings are crumbling as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women find creative ways to subsist in the hills. Through the women who raised her, Cassie Chambers traces her path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. Chambers’s Granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to raise seven children. Granny’s daughter, Ruth—the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county—stayed on the family farm, while Wilma—the sixth child—became the first in the family to graduate from high school. Married at nineteen and pregnant with Cassie a few months later, Wilma beat the odds to finish college. She raised her daughter to think she could move mountains, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated from the larger world. Cassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and Ruth in the hills of Owsley County. With her “hill women” values guiding her, she went on to graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her opportunities, its privileged world felt far from her reality, and she moved home to help rural Kentucky women by providing free legal services. Appalachian women face issues from domestic violence to the opioid crisis, but they are also keeping their towns together in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and heart, Chambers breaks down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminates a region whose poor communities, especially women, can lead it into the future.
