Hell Is Other Parents

Author : Deborah Copaken Kogan
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 140139454X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell Is Other Parents written by Deborah Copaken Kogan and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I read No Exit in my early twenties, and I remember thinking hell might very well be other people, okay, sure, but under what far-fetched conditions would anyone ever actually be trapped forever in the company of strangers with no sleep or means of escape? Then I became a parent. From Deborah Copaken Kogan, the acclaimed author of the national bestseller Shutterbabe, comes this edgy, insightful, and sidesplitting memoir about surviving in the trenches of modern parenting. Kogan writes situation comedy in the style of David Sedaris and Spalding Gray with a dash of Erma-Bombeck-on-a-Vespa: wry, acutely observed, and often hilarious true tales, in which the narrator is as culpable as any character. In these eleven linked pieces, Kogan and her husband are almost always broke while working full-time and raising three children in New York City, one of the most expensive and competitive cities in the world. In one episode, exhausted from a particularly difficult childbirth, Kogan finds herself sharing a hospital room with a foul-mouthed teen mother and her partying posse. In another, Kogan manages to crawl her way to her own emergency appendectomy, which inconveniently strikes the same week her infant's babysitter is away on vacation, her adolescents are off from school, her New York Times editor needs his edit, and the whole family catches the flu. And in the book's capper essay, she drives twelve hours, solo, with a screaming toddler in a rent-a-car in a futile effort to catch a glimpse of her eldest child in his summer camp play. Yes, Shutterbabe is all grown up and slightly worse for the wear, but her clear-eyed vision while under fire has remained intact: You've never read funnier war stories.

Author : Deborah Copaken Kogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780316372992
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell Is Other Parents written by Deborah Copaken Kogan and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses parenting as the greatest challenge of her life in a series of essays that describes her haphazard encounters with overprotective, competitive, and interfering fellow parents.

Author : Nathan Weathington
Publisher : Where the Hell Were Your Paren
ISBN 13 : 9781927559406
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where the Hell Were Your Parents? written by Nathan Weathington and published by Where the Hell Were Your Paren. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A coming-of-age true story about what happens when you let your kids run feral--half Goodfellas, half Stand By Me, and three-quarters Dukes of Hazzard"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Delia Falconer
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863954538
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Australian Stories 2009 written by Delia Falconer and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After searching high and low for the year's outstanding short fiction, Delia Falconer has selected masterful stories from some of the country's best-loved authors and exciting work from the up-and-coming. 'Stories don't have the novel's luxury of great swathes of time, its layerings, its wanderings, its counterpoints,' she observes. 'Instead, they must cut to the bone straightaway . . . Sometimes they capture a shift in a whole world; at other times they put into words a mood or tone that we might not have seen, until it appears so beautifully before us.' With their wry humour, quiet intensity and elegant economy, these stories display Australian writing at its diverse, unpredictable best.

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458742253
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Australian Stories 2009 (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition) written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kathryn Gin Lum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199843112
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damned Nation written by Kathryn Gin Lum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors, and the rest of the world. Kathryn Gin Lum poses a number of vital questions: Why did the fear of hell survive Enlightenment critiques in America, after largely subsiding in Europe and elsewhere? What were the consequences for early and antebellum Americans of living with the fear of seeing themselves and many people they knew eternally damned? How did they live under the weighty obligation to save as many souls as possible? What about those who rejected this sense of obligation and fear? Gin Lum shows that beneath early Americans' vaunted millennial optimism lurked a pervasive anxiety: that rather than being favored by God, they and their nation might be the object of divine wrath.

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 110191209X
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell-Heaven written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America. “Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth. An eBook short.

Author : Deborah Copaken
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375758682
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shutterbabe written by Deborah Copaken and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The remarkable memoir of an ambitious young photojournalist who went off to war as a twenty-two-year-old girl—and came back, four years and many adventures later, a woman “Eloquent and well observed, not only about the memoirist, but about the world: war, death, photojournalism and, of course, the worldwide battle between the sexes.” —The Washington Post Book World In 1988, fresh out of Harvard, Deborah Copaken Kogan moved to Paris with a small backpack, a couple of cameras, the hubris of a superhero, and a strong thirst for danger. She wanted to see what a war would look like when seen from up close. Naïvely, she figured it would be easy to filter death through the prism of her wide-angle lens. She was dead wrong. Within weeks of arriving in Paris, after begging to be sent where the action was, Kogan found herself on the back of a truck in Afghanistan, her tiny frame veiled from head to toe, the only woman—and the only journalist—in a convoy of rebel freedom fighters. Kogan had not actually planned on shooting the Afghan war alone. However, the beguiling French photographer she’d entrusted with both her itinerary and her heart turned out to be as dangerously unpredictable as, well, a war. Kogan found herself running from one corner of the globe to another, each linked to the man she was involved with at the time. From Zimbabwe to Romania, from Russia to Haiti, Kogan takes her readers on a heartbreaking yet surprisingly hilarious journey through a mine-strewn decade, her personal battles against sexism, battery, and even rape blending seamlessly with the historical struggles of war, revolution, and unfathomable abuse it was her job to record. In the end, what was once adventurous to the girl began to weigh heavily on the woman. Though she had finally been accepted into photojournalism’s macho fraternity, her photographs splashed across the front pages of international newspapers and magazines, Kogan began to feel there was something more she was after. Ultimately, what she discovered in herself was a person—a woman—for whom life, not death, is the one true adventure to be cherished above all.

Author : Dina Nayeri
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110160199X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea written by Dina Nayeri and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Refuge, a magical novel about a young Iranian woman lifted from grief by her powerful imagination and love of Western culture. Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that “all fate is written in the blood,” and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba’s world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister’s experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. Filled with a colorful cast of characters and presented in a bewitching voice that mingles the rhythms of Eastern storytelling with modern Western prose, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is a tale about memory and the importance of controlling one’s own fate.

Author : Madeleine Albright
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062802283
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hell and Other Destinations written by Madeleine Albright and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat.” —New Yorker From the seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright—among history's most admired and tireless public servants—a revealing, funny, and inspiring reflection on the challenge of continuing one’s career far beyond the normal age of retirement In 2001, when Madeleine Albright was leaving office as America’s first female secretary of state, interviewers asked her how she wished to be remembered. “I don’t want to be remembered,” she answered. “I am still here and have much more I intend to do. As difficult as it might seem, I want every stage of my life to be more exciting than the last.” In that time of transition, the former Secretary considered the possibilities: she could write, teach, travel, give speeches, start a business, fight for democracy, help to empower women, campaign for favored political candidates, spend more time with her grandchildren. Instead of choosing one or two, she decided to do it all. For nearly twenty years, Albright was in constant motion, navigating half a dozen professions, clashing with presidents and prime ministers, learning every day. After leaving the State Department, she blazed her own trail—and gave voice to millions who yearned for respect, regardless of gender, background, or age. Hell and Other Destinations reveals this remarkable figure at her bluntest, funniest, most intimate, and most serious. It is the tale of our times anchored in lessons for all time, narrated by an extraordinary woman who had a matchless zest for life.