My Broken Language - 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 My Broken Language write by Quiara Alegría Hudes. This book was released on 2021-04-06. My Broken Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, with her sprawling Puerto Rican family as a collective muse. LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, New York Public Library, BookPage, and BookRiot • “Quiara Alegría Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.”—Lin-Manuel Miranda, award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights Quiara Alegría Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced their defiance in a tight North Philly kitchen. She was awed by her mother and aunts and cousins, but haunted by the unspoken, untold stories of the barrio—even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea of language around her, written and spoken, English and Spanish, bodies and books, Western art and sacred altars. Her family became her private pantheon, a gathering circle of powerful orisha-like women with tragic real-world wounds, and she vowed to tell their stories—but first she’d have to get off the stairs and join the dance. She’d have to find her language. Weaving together Hudes’s love of music with the songs of her family, the lessons of North Philly with those of Yale, this is a multimythic dive into home, memory, and belonging—narrated by an obsessed girl who fought to become an artist so she could capture the world she loved in all its wild and delicate beauty.
Stir
Stir - 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 Stir write by Jessica Fechtor. This book was released on 2016-04-05. Stir available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Previously published in hardcover by Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House"--Title page verso.
Water by the Spoonful
Water by the Spoonful - 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 Water by the Spoonful write by Quiara Alegría Hudes. This book was released on 2013. Water by the Spoonful available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. THE STORY: Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and communi
Broken Like This
Broken Like This - 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 Broken Like This write by Monica Trasandes. This book was released on 2012-11-27. Broken Like This available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A tale told in bittersweet flashbacks follows a fateful car accident of a young woman devotedly loved by a man and a woman, who discover that the comatose woman is pregnant and that her health is being overseen by her malevolent stepfather.
The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels - 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 House of Broken Angels write by Luis Alberto Urrea. This book was released on 2018-03-06. The House of Broken Angels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub
