Martyrs' Crossing - 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 Martyrs' Crossing write by Amy Wilentz. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Martyrs' Crossing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An Israeli lieutenant and a Palestinian woman find themselves on opposite sides when rioting breaks out after the lieutenant refuses to let the woman and her sick child through a checkpoint. The child's grandfather, a prominent Palestinian American surgeon, must also make choices as the violence continues.
Farewell, Fred Voodoo
Farewell, Fred Voodoo - 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 Farewell, Fred Voodoo write by Amy Wilentz. This book was released on 2013-01-08. Farewell, Fred Voodoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, this is a brilliant writer’s account of a long, painful, ecstatic—and unreciprocated—affair with a country that has long fascinated the world. A foreign correspondent on a simple story becomes, over time and in the pages of this book, a lover of Haiti, pursuing the heart of this beautiful and confounding land into its darkest corners and brightest clearings. Farewell, Fred Voodoo is a journey into the depths of the human soul as well as a vivid portrayal of the nation’s extraordinary people and their uncanny resilience. Haiti has found in Amy Wilentz an author of astonishing wit, sympathy, and eloquence.
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen - 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 I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen write by Amy Wilentz. This book was released on 2006-08-22. I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From one of our most astute contemporary writers, Amy Wilentz, comes an irreverent, inventive portrait of the state of California and its unlikely governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The prizewinning author, a lifelong easterner and an outsider in the West, takes the reader on a picaresque journey from exclusive Hollywood soirees to a fantasy city in the Mojave desert, from the La Brea Tar Pits to celebrity-besotted Sacramento, from the tents of Skid Row to surf-drunk Malibu, from a snowbird retreat near Mexico to the hippie preserve of tide-beaten Big Sur, along the way offering up sharp observations on politics, fund-raising, the water supply, the Beach Boys, earthquake preparedness, home economics, catastrophism, movie-star politicians, political movie stars, Charlie Manson, and location scouts who want to rent your house in order to make television commercials for bathroom wall cleansers or Swedish banks. Wilentz moved to Los Angeles from a Manhattan wounded by September 11, only to discover a paradise marred by fire, flood, and mudslides. In what seemed like a joke to her, a Democratic governor nicknamed Gumby was about to be ousted by an Austrian muscleman in a bizarre election promoted by a millionaire whose business was car alarms. Intrigued, she set out to find the essence of the quirky, trailblazing state. During her travels, she spots celebrities but can't quite place them, drops in on famous salons with habitués like Warren Beatty and Arianna Huffington, and visits the neglected office of one very special 9,000-year-old woman. Plunging into the traffic of California, Wilentz noodles out meaning in some of the least likely of places; she sees the political in the personal and the personal in the political. By now an expert on tremors real and imagined, she offers readers on both coasts insights into where California stands today, and America as well.
Farewell, Fred Voodoo
Farewell, Fred Voodoo - 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 Farewell, Fred Voodoo write by Amy Wilentz. This book was released on 2013-01-08. Farewell, Fred Voodoo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the author's long and painful relationship with Haiti before and after the 2010 earthquake, tracing the country's turbulent history and its status as a symbol of human rights activism and social transformation.
Nan Domi
Nan Domi - 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 Nan Domi write by Mimerose Beaubrun. This book was released on 2013-12-17. Nan Domi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offers an insider's account of Vodou's private, mystical, interior practice, discussing the author's own initiation and education in the religion.
