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c2011., General, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Ots Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In six unforgettable, incantatory sections, the novel traces their new lives as "icture brides": the arduous voyage by boat, where the girls trade photos of their husbands and imagine uncertain futures in an unknown land ... their arrival in San Francisco and the tremulous first nights with their new husbands ... backbreaking toil as migrant workers in the fields and in the homes of white women ... the struggle to learn a new language and culture ... giving birth and raising children who come to reject their heritage . . . and, finally, the arrival of war, and the agonizing prospect of their internment.
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c2011., General, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: In six unforgettable, incantatory sections, the novel traces their new lives as "icture brides": the arduous voyage by boat, where the girls trade photos of their husbands and imagine uncertain futures in an unknown land ... their arrival in San Francisco and the tremulous first nights with their new husbands ... backbreaking toil as migrant workers in the fields and in the homes of white women ... the struggle to learn a new language and culture ... giving birth and raising children who come to reject their heritage . . . and, finally, the arrival of war, and the agonizing prospect of their internment.
![The Buddha in the attic [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74417.JPG "The Buddha in the attic [eBook]")
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By Allnutt, Gillian, 1949- Bell, Laura, 1954- Butalia, Urvashi Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan), 1936- Cusk, Rachel, 1967- Danticat, Edwidge, 1969- Davis, Lydia, 1947- Erdrich, Louise Galloway, Janice Gregerson, Linda Hill, Selima, 1945- Kuzmanovic, Tomislav Moorehead, Caroline Obreht, Téa Otsuka, Julie, 1962- Prose, Francine, 1947- Simpson, Helen, 1957- Welty, Eudora2011., Granta Call No: 818.54 G763f Edition: Issue 115: spring 2011. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Women in the twenty-first century from Kent to Accra still live in a world in which the balance of power remains tipped towards men. This bold, political issue of Granta will explore this dynamic from a wide variety of literary genres and perspectives. In "You Speak to Save Your Life," A. L. Kennedy investigates the surprising ways in which the human voice can be trapped and unlocked. Sara Wheeler retraces the American travels of Fanny Trollope, who uprooted to Ohio from England at the age of forty-eight and began an improbable second life. Julie Otsuka contributes a powerful piece of fiction about mail-order brides from Japan arriving in the US, and with "The Sex Lives of African Girls," the issue will introduce an astonishing new voice, Taiye Selasi, who spins a haunting story about the way adult sexuality can be imposed upon the young. With award-winning reportage, memoir and fiction, over the years Granta has illuminated the most complex issues of modern life through the refractory light of literature. The Dirty Word will continue this tradition by addressing a theme many readers know has never lost its urgency.
