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The Day My Mother Changed Her Name and Other Stories

Author : William D. Kaufman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815609322
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Day My Mother Changed Her Name and Other Stories written by William D. Kaufman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Kaufman grew up on his mother’s kugel and his father’s boyhood stories. The son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania and the Ukraine and one of five children, he learned how to translate his colorful childhood into tales of his own, regaling audiences of family, friends, and eventually his retirement community with periodic public readings. Now, at the age of 93, Kaufman makes his stories, filled with a sharp wit and telling detail, available to a wider audience for the first time. In the title story a young Jewish boy is shamed by his narrow-minded teacher when she forces him to admit, before the whole class, that his mother cannot read English. His mother’s eventual encounter with the teacher offers a lesson in self-respect with just the right balance of grace and moxie. In “The Search for God in the A & P” a young boy goes on a clandestine mission to compare prices at his father’s grocery competition; the expedition meets with comic results when the young boy refuses to be bullied in this David-and-Goliath-style parable. These semi-autobiographical stories, populated with outsized and magnetic characters, subtly layer the specifics of the Jewish experience with universals dilemmas of childhood, growing up, and old age.

The Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories

Author : William D. Kaufman
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815651252
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Day My Mother Cried and Other Stories written by William D. Kaufman and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lasting charm of Kaufman’s stories lies in a delightful mix of personal incidents and observations set against an anchoring backdrop of cultural tradition. His new collection is filled with tales from his parents’ homeland in the Ukraine, his own childhood reminiscences, and his adult travels. We watch the young author forced alongside “every Jewish boy on the block” to emulate Yehudi Menuhin on a ten-dollar violin with a moldy bow until the boy is spared by an innate lack of talent and his father’s judgment of his concert: “Enough is enough is more than enough.” Kaufman is carefully attuned to the awkwardness of adulthood as well as to that of early adolescence. In “Interlude in Bangkok,” his narrator scours the city for a synagogue while pursued by a prostitute. Later he and a friend encounter Greta Garbo in a museum café and are too frightened to approach her. Aware of their intrigue, the mysterious movie star intones, “I am not she”; Kaufman, in his own way, says that of himself in these stories through an autobiographical narrator whose memories take on resonant, literary shapes in their retelling.

Wild Game

Author : Adrienne Brodeur
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 1328519031
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Wild Game written by Adrienne Brodeur and published by Harper. This book was released on 2019 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a hot July night on Cape Cod, at the age of 14, Brodeur became a confidante to her mother's affair with her husband's closest friend. Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help, but when the affair had calamitous consequences for everyone involved, Brodeau was driven into a precarious marriage of her own, and then into a deep depression. In her memoir she examines how the people close to us can break our hearts simply because they have access to them, and the lies we tell in order to justify the choices we make. -- adapted from jacket

Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories

Author : David Shrayer-Petrov
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815610335
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories written by David Shrayer-Petrov and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fourteen stories by the acclaimed master of Jewish-Russian fiction are set in the former USSR, Western Europe, and America. Dinner with Stalin features Soviet Jews grappling with issues of identity, acculturation, and assimilation. Shrayer-Petrov explores aspects of antisemitism and persecution, problems of mixed marriages, dilemmas of conversion, and the survival of Jewish memory. Both an author and a physician, Shrayer-Petrov examines his subjects through the double lenses of medicine and literature. He writes about Russian Jews who, having suffered in the former Soviet Union, continue to cultivate their sense of cultural Russianness, even as they—and especially their children—assimilate and increasingly resemble American Jews. Shrayer-Petrov’s stories also bear witness to the ways Jewish immigrants from the former USSR interact with Americans of other identities and creeds, notably with Catholics and Moslems. Not only lovers of Jewish and Russian writing but all discriminating readers will delight in Dinner with Stalin and Other Stories.

Things My Mother Never Told Me

Author : Blake Morrison
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099440725
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Things My Mother Never Told Me written by Blake Morrison and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of a son's search to learn the truth about her.

Leaving Russia

Author : Maxim D. Shrayer
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652437
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Russia written by Maxim D. Shrayer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated in the tradition of Tolstoy's confessional trilogy and Nabokov's autobiography, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story is a searing account of growing up a Jewish refusenik, of a young poet's rebellion against totalitarian culture, and of Soviet fantasies of the West during the Cold War. Shrayer's remembrances ore set against a rich backdrop of politics, travel, and ethnic conflict on the brink of the Soviet empire's collapse. His moving story offers generous doses of humor and tenderness, counterbalanced with longing and violence.

Shadows in Winter

Author : Eitan Fishbane
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815650752
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Shadows in Winter written by Eitan Fishbane and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 2007, Leah Fishbane, a promising young graduate student in the prime of her life, was struck down suddenly with a undiagnosed brain tumor. In this deeply evocative memoir, written during the dark time of the first year following Leah’s death, her husband Eitan gives voice to the overwhelming power of grief and to the deep love that underlies such pain. He tells the story of his efforts to be a good father to his grieving four–year–old child and of his discovery of himself as a parent in ways he had not known before. Along this path, Fishbane asks fundamental questions about the meaning of death and life, about the place of God and faith in the experience of tragedy, reflecting on what it means to live with loss. The result is a poetic testament that will resonate with countless mourners and their loved ones. In giving honest expression to emotions that are at once particular and universal, Shadows in Winter offers a luminous window of comfort and hope to those battling the devastation of loss.

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

Author : Michele Filgate
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982107359
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book What My Mother and I Don't Talk About written by Michele Filgate and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse. As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.

The Long Goodbye

Author : Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101486554
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Long Goodbye written by Meghan O'Rourke and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anguished, beautifully written... The Long Goodbye is an elegiac depiction of drama as old as life." -- The New York Times Book Review From one of America's foremost young literary voices, a transcendent portrait of the unbearable anguish of grief and the enduring power of familial love. What does it mean to mourn today, in a culture that has largely set aside rituals that acknowledge grief? After her mother died of cancer at the age of fifty-five, Meghan O'Rourke found that nothing had prepared her for the intensity of her sorrow. In the first anguished days, she began to create a record of her interior life as a mourner, trying to capture the paradox of grief-its monumental agony and microscopic intimacies-an endeavor that ultimately bloomed into a profound look at how caring for her mother during her illness changed and strengthened their bond. O'Rourke's story is one of a life gone off the rails, of how watching her mother's illness-and separating from her husband-left her fundamentally altered. But it is also one of resilience, as she observes her family persevere even in the face of immeasurable loss. With lyricism and unswerving candor, The Long Goodbye conveys the fleeting moments of joy that make up a life, and the way memory can lead us out of the jagged darkness of loss. Effortlessly blending research and reflection, the personal and the universal, it is not only an exceptional memoir, but a necessary one.

Behind Esther

Author : Chris Altrock
Publisher : ACU Press
ISBN 13 : 1684269725
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Behind Esther written by Chris Altrock and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esther's World Is Much Like Ours: God Seems Missing. Some of Esther's peers, like Daniel, lived with a distinct advantage: they experienced the mighty, miracle-making wonder of God. Esther, on the other hand, was surrounded by extravagant wealth and impiety in the disenchanted empire of Persia. Faith wasn't easy in a place like this, but thankfully, Esther learned there was more to God than what she could see. Today's suffering and cynicism can leave us feeling that God is long gone. But, in truth, he is still present and active in our lives. In slow, mundane, and even obscure ways, he is pursuing us and repairing our broken world. Follow Esther as she models ten practices that connect us with a seemingly distant God and his unexpected work in the world.

The Real Rachel Winterbourne and Other Stories

Author : Tim Jeffreys
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244368104
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Real Rachel Winterbourne and Other Stories written by Tim Jeffreys and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Real Rachel Winterbourne and Other Stories' is a powerful collection of science fiction shorts that examines the lengths people go to in order to find truth and happiness. Some of the characters in these tales achieve their dream and have it snatched away, other can't tell dreams from reality. A masquerade is in full swing. Masks slip. Intruders abound. There are lies, and there is the truth. But which is which?

Driving the Heart and Other Stories

Author : Jason Brown
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393047219
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book Driving the Heart and Other Stories written by Jason Brown and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen stories, some on medical themes. The story, Detox, describes a detoxification clinic which caters to children, while The Coroner's Report deals with the routine in a morgue.

Roofing with a Naked Lady and Other Stories

Author : Fred Anderson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059518863X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Roofing with a Naked Lady and Other Stories written by Fred Anderson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you go to high school? Did you want to go to high school? Or, God forbid, did you ever teach high school? Roofing with a Naked Lady is for you–perhaps it’s about you. During 30 years of teaching, Fred Anderson has found himself in hilarious, serious, and sometimes dangerous situations. In this collection of sometimes amazing but always true stories, Fred battles a falling barn, an army of cockroaches, an undercover superintendent, and teenagers wielding assorted powertools—and weapons. Fred Anderson has taught guitar, theater lighting design, leather work, metal fabrication, drafting, auto mechanics, wood-working, cabinet making, pattern making, and construction trades, and of course, roofing. His love of teaching is second only to his passion for writing and telling his stories.

Work in Progress and Other Stories

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Publisher : New Internationalist
ISBN 13 : 1906523142
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Work in Progress and Other Stories written by and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2009 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories from the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary prize - awarded to an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or elsewhere. The collection includes the five shortlisted stories along with 12 stories written by the Caine Prize Writers' workshop. The Caine Prize is patronised by the four African winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Wole Soynika, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz and J.M. Coetzee.

The Shadowy Third and Other Stories

Author : Ellen Glasgow
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shadowy Third and Other Stories written by Ellen Glasgow and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He asked particularly for the nurse who was with Miss Hudson last week when he operated. I think he didn’t even remember that you had a name. When I asked if he meant Miss Randolph, he repeated that he wanted the nurse who had been with Miss Hudson. She was small, he said, and cheerful-looking. This, of course, might apply to one or two of the others, but none of these was with Miss Hudson...FROM THE BOOKS.

Cher

Author : Josiah Howard
Publisher : Plexus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085965897X
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Cher written by Josiah Howard and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her astonishing fifty-year career - which has encompassed TV triumphs, a string of international hits, an Oscar statuette and a Las Vegas residency - Cher's personal life has continually made front-page news. In the shadow of her success, Cher has married twice, battled depression, defied the censors, and dealt with the tragedy of Sonny Bono's early death. Including exclusive interviews with Cher and those she has worked with on and off stage, Strong Enough documents the ins, outs, ups and downs of a one-name American icon at her outrageous best - by the writer behind Cher's Vegas tour programmes.

The Source of Life and Other Stories

Author : Beth Bosworth
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822978466
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Source of Life and Other Stories written by Beth Bosworth and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-divorce dating is one more cause for celebration (or a quick call in to the police) in Beth Bosworth's revelatory new book, The Source of Life and Other Stories. The spine of this collection is a series of linked stories about Ruth Stein, a Brooklyn author whose first book has exposed her father's abuses; while the voice here, speaking across a lifetime, ranges from bittersweet to humorous to lethal. In other stories Bosworth's narrators—a mother left to care for her son's suicidal dog, an editor haunted by a dog-eared manuscript—seem to grab hold of the reins and run off with their fates. Meanwhile Bosworth explores the extended family, the bonds of friendship, an apocalyptic Vermont, the rank yet redeemable Gowanus Canal; also rites of passage, race relations, divorce, middle-aged romance, dementia, funerals, alcoholism, and the Jewish religion. Reality is just another stumbling block for Bosworth's characters, who might help themselves but don't always choose to. There are leaps of faith here, nonetheless, as the collection dispenses a kind of narrative psychotropic for survival and redemption, with a chaser of humor mixed in.