No Country Woman

Author : Zoya Patel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780733640063
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No-Country Woman written by Zoya Patel and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is not a place I've thought of often, but I think of it now and wonder how it has shaped me. I am Fijian-Indian, and have lived in Australia since I was three years old. Memories of my early life in Fiji are limited to flashes, like an old film projector running backwards. I remember a blue dress, a trip on a boat where my father handed me a dried, floating starfish that I clutched in my fingers, determined not to lose it back to the ocean.' No Country Woman is the story of never knowing where you belong. It's about not feeling represented in the media you consumed, not being connected to the culture of your forebears, not having the respect of your peers. It's about living in a multicultural society with a monocultural focus but being determined to be heard. It's about challenging society's need to define us and it's a rallying cry for the future. It's a memoir full of heart, fury and intelligence - and the book we need right now.

Author : Tasalimā Nāsarina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189766641
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Country for Women written by Tasalimā Nāsarina and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles with reference chiefly to Bangladesh and India.

Author : Hannah August
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
ISBN 13 : 0908321384
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Country for Old Maids? written by Hannah August and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hannah August's intelligent and humane study illuminates, sometimes uncomfortably, the ways in which our demographics are changing and our attitudes are not. This is public intellection that is curious, rigorous, and highly relevant to our time.' Eleanor Catton In 2013, there were over 66,000 more women between the ages of 25-49 living in New Zealand than there were men. This so-called ‘man drought’ is a hot topic for journalists and academics alike, who comment on how the situation might affect New Zealand women’s chances of finding love. Yet they rarely stop to ask women their own opinions on the matter. In this BWB Text, Hannah August does just that, integrating interview material, statistics and cultural commentary in order to demonstrate why we need to talk differently about the ‘man drought’.

Author : Prochoice Books
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781099870682
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Country For Old Men written by Prochoice Books and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Pro-Choice Feminist Design featuring a uterus shape on a retro vintage look circle. This No Country For Old Men is the perfect Woman's Rights Feminist design. We work hard to bring useful, beautiful and aesthetic paperback notebooks to life. This is a 6"x 9" sized lined notebook, perfect for taking notes at work, school or home. Take it everywhere with you. The college ruled lines are perfect for note taking and doodling. Take notes of everything that comes to your mind and keep your memories organised with this funny journal notebook 6 x 9 inches 120 pages Blank Notebook

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307390535
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Country for Old Men written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road comes a "profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered" novel (The Washington Post) that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug-runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. One day, a good old boy named Llewellyn Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a bodyguard of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law—in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell—can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers—in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives—McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Susan Straight
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 164622020X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Country of Women written by Susan Straight and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self–proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close–knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post–slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight’s mother–in–law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, “The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival.” “Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, In the Country of Women . . . Her vibrant pages are filled with people of churned–together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb . . . Straight gives us permission to remember what went before with passion and attachment.” ––Los Angeles Times

Author : Eavan Boland
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393352943
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman Without a Country written by Eavan Boland and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful work that examines how—even without country or settled identity—a legacy of love can endure. Eavan Boland is considered “one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century” by Poetry Review. This stunning new collection, A Woman Without a Country, looks at how we construct one another and how nationhood and history can weave through, reflect, and define the life of an individual. Themes of mother, daughter, and generation echo throughout these extraordinary poems, as they examine how—even without country or settled identity—a legacy of love can endure. From “Talking to my Daughter Late at Night” We have a tray, a pot of tea, a scone. This is the hour When one thing pours itself into another: The gable of our house stored in shadow. A spring planet bending ice Into an absolute of light. Your childhood ended years ago. There is No path back to it.

Author : Emma Styles
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0751583855
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Country for Girls written by Emma Styles and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GOLD. THEFT. MURDER. A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR. Winner of the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger Award Shortlisted for the Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel Shortlisted for the ACWA Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction Longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 'An unrelenting page-turner' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END 'A triumph' THE i 'The real star is the desolate Outback' THE TIMES 'Thrilling . . . It left me breathless' ALEX MARWOOD, author of THE WICKED GIRLS 'Perfectly paced' SCOTSMAN 'Razor-sharp wit meets pumping action' FEMI KAYODE, author of LIGHTSEEKERS 'Beautifully done' LITERARY REVIEW 'A thrilling cross-country chase through remote Australia' SUNDAY POST 'A breathless Outback chase' THE AGE ____________ Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together forever. A man is dead and now they are unwilling accomplices in his murder there's only one thing to do: hit the road in the victim's twin cab ute, with a bag of stolen gold stashed under the passenger seat. Suddenly outlaws, Nao and Charlie must make their way across Australia's remote outback using only their wits to survive. They'll do whatever it takes to evade capture and escape with their lives . . . Thelma & Louise for a new generation, No Country for Girls is a gritty, twisty road-trip thriller that follows two young women on the run across the harsh, unforgiving landscape of Australia. __________ What readers are saying about No Country for Girls 'What an incredible, high octane, thrilling ride this book is!' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I desperately wanted to know what happens next' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I loved the characters and the setting, which was described with vivid and rich imagery' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Incredibly well plotted' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Tense and thrilling . . . Highly recommended, there are absolutely no slow bits to this story' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Author : Holly Gleason
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322582
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman Walk the Line written by Holly Gleason and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

Author : Elizabeth Taylor
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681375656
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont written by Elizabeth Taylor and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blackly humorous story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age by one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century. On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. “If it’s not nice, I needn’t stay,” she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. “Three elderly widows and one old man . . . who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind” serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely. What is Mrs. Palfrey to do with herself now that she has all the time in the world? Go for a walk. Go to a museum. Go to the end of the block. Well, she does have her grandson who works at the British Museum, and he is sure to visit any day. Mrs. Palfrey prides herself on having always known “the right thing to do,” but in this new situation she discovers that resource is much reduced. Before she knows it, in fact, she tries something else. Elizabeth Taylor’s final and most popular novel is as unsparing as it is, ultimately, heartbreaking.