This collection features the writing of women from places as diverse as Slovakia and Portugal, India and Uruguay, Korea and Kenya, Italy and Iran. They look and think differently. They have distinctive traditions, cultures and history....
Women immigrants
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Author:Parmar, Prabhjot, Somaia-Carten, NilaSummary: -
Author:Johnson, PeterSummary:A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new...
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Author:Yalfani, MehriSummary:Mehri Yalfani’s stories in The Street of Butterflies feature Iranian women dealing with displacement, cultural change, and struggles for survival and adaptation as immigrants in North America. At the same time, the challenges...
- Author:Mankell, HenningSummary:
Author/poet Jesper Humlin struggles under the pall of a frustrating life. Everything--from his personal relationships to his professional pursuits to his finances--seems to be failing miserably. Then Jesper happens across a group of...
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Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary: - Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York. He visits the country before his job starts, and ends up staying in a haunted chateau where he learns to let go of the past and move into a liberating...
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Author:Medaglia, LinaSummary:A mesmerizing novel of betrayal, loss, and multiple identities, this is the story of Licia Giganteschi, for whom it takes half a lifetime to go back home, to a place she loves and hates at the same time. Licia grows up in the beautiful...
- Author:Glover, RuthSummary:
When Tieney Caulder is sent to the New World by her father to stake a claim for her family, she is shocked to discover that her sweetheart, Robert Dunbar, has promised to marry a dying widow and take care of her children in exchange for...
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Author:Yezierska, AnziaSummary: -
Author:Luther, Rashmi, Book Project CollectiveSummary:A collection of true stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women create an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their 20s to those in their 70s provide snapshots that begin in the 1960s and go to the present...
- Author:Cather, WillaSummary:
Alexandra Bergsons, the daughter of Swedish immigrants, inherits her family's ailing farm in Hanover, Nebraska upon the death of her father. Over the years, she turns the farm into a successful enterprise. However, success has not...
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Author:Lawrence, KatherineSummary:In Never Mind, Katherine Lawrence constructs a centuries-old immigrant tale that is fiercely feminist, surprisingly modern and darkly funny. The voice in these exquisite poems is a 19th century woman who straddles both old and new...
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Author:Cather, WillaSummary:A deeply moving portrait of a community of early American pioneers in the Nebraska heartland and of the free-spirited girl at its heart.
Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of...
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- Author:Brennert, AlanSummary:
When a young Korean girl known as Regret leaves her homeland for a better life in Hawaii, as a "picture bride," she expects to find prosperity and a chance at education. But the rich husband she is promised turns out to be a poor...
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Author:Donati, SaraSummary:A strong, vivid historical novel set against the backdrop of the 1812 war between Britain and America. Fire Along the Sky is the story of one woman's unforgettable journey across a young nation threatened by the flames of war. The...
- Author:Baldwin, Shauna SinghSummary:
The new reader's guide edition of Shauna Singh Baldwin's literary debut features the fifteen stories from the original collection, an interview with the author, an original afterword, and her suggested reading list. When Shauna Singh...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
The Berrybender's party is moving forward across the Great Plains of the West towards Santa Fe. Tasmin's husband scouts ahead and falls in love with Pomp Charbonneau, who dies at the hand of the ruthless commander of the...
- Author:ALI, MonicaSummary:
Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with an older man and misery seems to stretch ahead for her. Fearfully leaving the sultry oppression of her Bangladeshi village, Nazneen finds herself cloistered in a small flat in...
