In the Country of Women A Memoir【電子書籍】[ Susan Straight ]

＜p＞＜strong＞One of NPR's Best Books of the Year＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞“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.” ー＜em＞San Francisco Chronicle＜/em＞＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞In the Country of Women＜/em＞ 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 bar．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る