Housegirl

Author : Michael Donkor
Publisher : Picador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250305190

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Housegirl by Michael Donkor Pdf

Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize • Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize • Nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Award • One of The Observer's "New Faces of Fiction" • One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated Books of the Year" • One of The Guardian's "Best Summer Books" (Selected by Kayo Chingonyi and Joe Dunthorne) • One of Library Journal's "Most Anticipated Fall Debuts" • One of The Observer's Best Books of the Year • An NPR "Staff Pick" and One of the NPR Book Concierge's "Best Books of the Year" A Go On Girl! Book Club Selection "Immensely readable...A refreshing story about coming of age in spite of conflicting ideas of what 'growing up' means."—Buzzfeed (The Best Books of Fall) A moving and unexpectedly funny exploration of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness, Michael Donkor's debut novel follows three adolescent girls grappling with a shared experience: the joys and sorrows of growing up. Belinda knows how to follow the rules. As a housegirl, she has learned the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi. Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven-years-old and irrepressible, the young housegirl-in-training is the little sister Belinda never had. Amma has had enough of the rules. A straight-A student at her exclusive London school, she has always been the pride of her Ghanaian parents—until now. Watching their once-confident teenager grow sullen and wayward, they decide that sensible Belinda is the shining example Amma needs. So Belinda must leave Mary behind as she is summoned from Ghana to London, where she tries to impose order on her unsettling new world. As summer turns to autumn, Belinda and Amma are surprised to discover common ground. But when the cracks in their defenses open up, the secrets they have both been holding tightly threaten to seep out.

Author : Tara Conklin
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443413558

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The House Girl by Tara Conklin Pdf

A stunning New York Times bestselling novel that intertwines the stories of an escaped slave in 1852 Virginia and an ambitious young lawyer in contemporary New York and asks: is it ever too late to right a wrong? Lynnhurst, Virginia, 1852. Seventeen-year-old Josephine Bell decides to run away from the failing tobacco farm where she is a slave and nurse to her ailing mistress, the aspiring artist Lu Anne Bell. New York City, 2004. Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in an elite law firm, is given a difficult, highly sensitive assignment that could make her career: finding the “perfect plaintiff” to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves. It is through her father, the renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers Josephine Bell and a controversy rocking the art world: are the iconic paintings long ascribed to Lu Anne Bell really the work of her house slave, Josephine? A descendant of Josephine’s—if Lina can locate one—would be the perfect face for the reparations lawsuit. While following the runaway house girl’s faint trail through old letters and plantation records, Lina finds herself questioning her own family history and the secrets that her father has never revealed: how did Lina’s mother die? And why will he never speak about her?

Author : Michael Donkor
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008280369

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Hold by Michael Donkor Pdf

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.

Author : Hilda Polacheck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252062183

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I Came a Stranger by Hilda Polacheck Pdf

Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck (1882-1967) never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, the markets, and the scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. Here, in charming and colorful prose, she recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community, her friendship with Jane Addams, her marriage, her support of civil rights, woman suffrage, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and her experiences as a writer for the WPA.

Author : Margaret Rodman Critchlow,Daniela Kraemer,Lissant Bolton,Jean Tarisesei
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824830120

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House-Girls Remember by Margaret Rodman Critchlow,Daniela Kraemer,Lissant Bolton,Jean Tarisesei Pdf

Giving voice to the women who worked as maids—known as "house-girls" in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu—is the goal of this innovative work. The stories the women tell resonate with the experiences of domestic workers around the world; their histories contribute to theorizing intimacy and traveling culture; and their struggles with adverse working conditions help find solutions, which are outlined at the end of the book. In addition to contributions by the editors, workshop reports by eleven ni-Vanuatu women fieldworkers and ten others who spoke about their lives as house-girls are included. These reports detail ni-Vanuatu women’s experiences as domestic workers during the colonial period. One chapter presents an elderly French woman’s recollections of the Vietnamese orphan who grew up in her home and worked as a house-girl. Material from contemporary house-girls appears in a final chapter based on research conducted in Port Vila.

Author : K. Flynn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137079862

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Food, Culture, and Survival in an African City by K. Flynn Pdf

A rich ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city, offering valuable lessons about the powerful roles of gender, migration, exchange, sex, and charity in food acquisition. Based on anthropologist Karen Coen Flynn's study of Mwanza, Tanzania, this work draws on the personal accounts of over 350 market vendors, low, middle and high-income consumers, urban farmers as well as those, including children, who live on the streets. This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals interested in anthropology, African studies, urban studies, gender studies and development economics.

Author : Walter Max Poitzsch
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479705344

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The Sabbath Days by Walter Max Poitzsch Pdf

The Sabbath Day is a story about a man called Dabire K. Joseph. But he was giving the name Tegawende in the story because he believed in god. He named one of his daughters God-see. As she was growing up,she started to think about her family, situation, and their relationship with neighbors and friends, and it seemed to her that the more people lean toward God, the more they also struggle against evil. Then she end up in a village on a Sabbath day when she got chased by a giant snake.This was supposed to be a day of religious observation, yet the giant snake was about to eat her.So she thought there must be a struggle between good and evil during the days that people stop working and worship their god.And these days are the Sabbath Days. So she calls all the unpleasant moments shehad witnessed the Sabbath Days.

Author : Tara Conklin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443436328

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The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin Pdf

From the New York Times–bestselling author of The House Girl comes a novel about our most precious and dangerous attachment: family In the spring of 1981, the young Skinner siblings—fierce Renee, dreamy Caroline, golden boy Joe and watchful Fiona—lose their father to a heart attack and their mother to a paralyzing depression, events that thrust them into a period they will later call “the Pause.” Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that stretches before them, the siblings navigate the dangers and resentments of the Pause to emerge fiercely loyal and deeply connected. Two decades later, the Skinners find themselves again confronted with a family crisis that tests the strength of these bonds and forces them to question the life choices they’ve made and what, exactly, they will do for love. Narrated nearly a century later by the youngest sibling, the renowned poet Fiona Skinner, The Last Romantics spans a lifetime. It’s a story of sex and affection, sacrifice and selfishness, deeply held principles and dashed expectations, a lost engagement ring, a squandered baseball scholarship, unsupervised summers at the neighbourhood pond and an iconic book of love poems. But most of all it is the story of Renee, Caroline, Joe and Fiona: the ways they support each other, the ways they betray each other and the ways they knit back together bonds they have fractured. In the vein of Commonwealth, Little Fires Everywhere and The Nest, this is a panoramic, tenderly insightful novel about one devoted, imperfect family. The Last Romantics is an unforgettable exploration of the responsibilities we bear both gracefully and unwillingly, and the all-important, ever-complex definition of love.

Author : Abi Daré
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524746087

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The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré Pdf

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! “Brave, fresh . . . unforgettable.”—The New York Times Book Review “A celebration of girls who dare to dream.”—Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers (Oprah’s Book Club pick) Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and recommended by The New York Times, Marie Claire, Vogue, Essence, PopSugar, Daily Mail, Electric Literature, Red, Stylist, Daily Kos, Library Journal, The Everygirl, and Read It Forward! The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her “louding voice” and speak up for herself, The Girl with the Louding Voice is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams. Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself – and help other girls like her do the same. Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will “break your heart and then put it back together again” (Jenna Bush Hager on The Today Show) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams…and maybe even change the world.

Author : Martha Finley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Christian life
ISBN : BL:A0026672266

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Stupid Sally, the Poor-House Girl by Martha Finley Pdf

Author : Ali Lewis
Publisher : Random House
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781849398855

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Everybody Jam by Ali Lewis Pdf

Danny Dawson lives in the middle of the Australian outback. His older brother Jonny was killed in an accident last year but no-one ever talks about it. And now it's time for the annual muster. The biggest event of the year on the cattle station, and a time to sort the men from the boys. But this year things will be different: because Jonny's gone and Danny's determined to prove he can fill his brother's shoes; because their fourteen-year-old sister is pregnant; because it's getting hotter and hotter and the rains won't come; because cracks are beginning to show . . . When Danny's mum admits she can't cope, the family hires a housegirl to help out - a wide-eyed English backpacker. She doesn't have a clue what she's let herself in for. And neither do they.

Author : Sharon B Stichter,Jane Parpart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000313154

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Patriarchy And Class by Sharon B Stichter,Jane Parpart Pdf

This book argues for the applicability of a materialist mode of production analysis to the situation of women in Africa. It briefly reviews some of the intellectual background and current theoretical dilemmas of marxism-feminism.

Author : Rita Woods
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250298478

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Remembrance by Rita Woods Pdf

"Stunning. ... Family is at the core of Remembrance, the breathtaking debut novel by Rita Woods." -- The Boston Globe. This breakout historical debut with modern resonance is perfect for the many fans of The Underground Railroad and Orphan Train. Remembrance...It’s a rumor, a whisper passed in the fields and veiled behind sheets of laundry. A hidden stop on the underground road to freedom, a safe haven protected by more than secrecy...if you can make it there. Ohio, present day. An elderly woman who is more than she seems warns against rising racism as a young nurse grapples with her life. Haiti, 1791, on the brink of revolution. When the slave Abigail is forced from her children to take her mistress to safety, she discovers New Orleans has its own powers. 1857 New Orleans—a city of unrest: Following tragedy, house girl Margot is sold just before her promised freedom. Desperate, she escapes and chases a whisper.... Remembrance. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Nell Pattison
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008361778

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The Silent House (Paige Northwood, Book 1) by Nell Pattison Pdf

**Don’t miss the new blockbuster thriller from Nell Pattison: HIDE – coming December 2021! Available to pre-order now...**

Author : Colorado. Governor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Budget
ISBN : UCAL:B3063315

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Budget of the State of Colorado for the Biennial Period ... by Colorado. Governor Pdf