Mother Country

Author : Jacinda Townsend
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644451755

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Winner of the 2022 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Shortlisted for the 2023 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award A transnational feminist novel about human trafficking and motherhood from an award-winning author. Saddled with student loans, medical debt, and the sudden news of her infertility after a major car accident, Shannon, an African American woman, follows her boyfriend to Morocco in search of relief. There, in the cobblestoned medina of Marrakech, she finds a toddler in a pink jacket whose face mirrors her own. With the help of her boyfriend and a bribed official, Shannon makes the fateful decision to adopt and raise the girl in Louisville, Kentucky. But the girl already has a mother: Souria, an undocumented Mauritanian woman who was trafficked as a teen, and who managed to escape to Morocco to build another life. In rendering Souria’s separation from her family across vast stretches of desert and Shannon’s alienation from her mother under the same roof, Jacinda Townsend brilliantly stages cycles of intergenerational trauma and healing. Linked by the girl who has been a daughter to them both, these unforgettable protagonists move toward their inevitable reckoning. Mother Country is a bone-deep and unsparing portrayal of the ethical and emotional claims we make upon one another in the name of survival, in the name of love.

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781429944731

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Mother Country by Marilynne Robinson Pdf

At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit. Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

Author : Irina Reyn
Publisher : Picador
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250300894

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Starred reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be a mother in a world where you can't be with your child Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification" of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalizes notions of "union" all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands. Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. It is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.

Author : Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Publisher : Headline
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472261892

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***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE*** A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home. This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life stories spanning more than 70 years. "The story of Windrush, is, like any other, a story of humanity. Of life, love, struggle, hope, misery, success and failure. It's one that is too often neglected in our media ... but this volume acts as a remedy to that failure of story-telling, which I ask you to both savour and share." - David Lammy MP Contributors include: Catherine Ross, Corinne Bailey-Rae, David Lammy, Gail Lewis, Hannah Lowe, Howard Gardner, Jamz Supernova, Kay Montano, Kemi Alemoru, Kimberley McIntosh, Lazare Sylvestre, Lenny Henry, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Myrna Simpson, Naomi Oppenheim, Natasha Gordon, Nellie Brown, Paul Reid, Riaz Phillips, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Sharon Frazer-Carroll.

Author : Jeremy Harding
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789601176

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When Jeremy Harding was a child, his mother, Maureen, told him he was adopted. She described his natural parents as a Scandinavian sailor and a "little Irish girl" who worked in a grocery. It was only later, as Harding set out to look for traces of his birth mother, that he began to understand who his adoptive mother really was-and the benign make-believe world she built for herself and her little boy. Evoking a magical childhood spent in transit between west London and a decrepit houseboat on the banks of the River Thames, Mother Country is both a detective quest, as Harding searches through the public records for clues about his natural mother, and a rich social history of a lost London from the 1950s. Mother Country is a powerful true story about a man looking for the mother he had never known and finding out how little he understood the one he had grown up with.

Author : Irina Reyn
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466887374

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Mother Country by Irina Reyn Pdf

Starred reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Award-winning author Irina Reyn explores what it means to be a mother in a world where you can't be with your child Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the "reunification" of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalizes notions of "union" all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands. Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. It is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.

Author : Stephen Bourne
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752496818

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Very little attention has been given to black British and West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the ‘front line’ during the Second World War. Yet black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Manchester, and many volunteered as civilian defence workers, such as air-raid wardens, firefighters, stretcher-bearers, first-aid workers and mobile canteen personnel. Many helped unite people when their communities faced devastation. Black children were evacuated and black entertainers risked death when they took to the stage during air raids. Despite some evidence of racism, black people contributed to the war effort where they could. The colonies also played an important role in the war effort: support came from places as far away as Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana and Nigeria. Mother Country tells the story of some of the forgotten Britons whose contribution to the war effort has been overlooked until now.

Author : Arthur DAVIES (Commander, R.N.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023171257

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Proposals for uniting the British Colonies with their Mother-Country, by making them “integral portions of the Empire;” and by closing and settling at once, and for the whole Empire, the ... questions, of I. Indirect or direct taxation. II. Transportation ... III. Popery, as affecting the Anglican Church throughout the Empire by Arthur DAVIES (Commander, R.N.) Pdf

Author : Isaac Buchanan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015030998473

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The Relations of the Industry of Canada, with the Mother Country and the United States by Isaac Buchanan Pdf

Author : Sidney Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : England
ISBN : BL:A0021930524

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The Mother Country: Or, the Spade, the Wastes, and the Eldest Son by Sidney Smith Pdf

Author : Isaac BUCHANAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017378369

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The Relations of the Industry of Canada with the Mother Country and the United States, Being a Speech by I. Buchanan ... Together with a Series of Articles in Defence of the National Sentiments Contained Therein ... Edited by Henry J. Morgan. [With a Portrait.] by Isaac BUCHANAN Pdf

Author : Christopher Yuan,Angela Yuan
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307729361

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Out of a Far Country by Christopher Yuan,Angela Yuan Pdf

Over 100,000 copies sold! Coming Out, Then Coming Home Christopher Yuan, the son of Chinese immigrants, discovered at an early age that he was different. He was attracted to other boys. As he grew into adulthood, his mother, Angela, hoped to control the situation. Instead, she found that her son and her life were spiraling out of control—and her own personal demons were determined to defeat her. Years of heartbreak, confusion, and prayer followed before the Yuans found a place of complete surrender, which is God’s desire for all families. Their amazing story, told from the perspectives of both mother and son, offers hope for anyone affected by homosexuality. God calls all who are lost to come home to him. Casting a compelling vision for holy sexuality, Out of a Far Country speaks to prodigals, parents of prodigals, and those wanting to minister to the gay community. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.” - Luke 15:20 Includes a discussion guide for personal reflection and group use.

Author : Ed Pilkington
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1350186589

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Beyond the Mother Country by Ed Pilkington Pdf

The British Government's relaxed approach to black immigration after 1948 is examined in detail up to the Nottiing Hill riots of 1958.

Author : Elana Bell
Publisher : American Poets Continuum
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1950774384

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Mother Country by Elana Bell Pdf

Elana Bell's tender poems about motherhood, caregiving, mental illness, longing, infertility, childbirth, and renewal reveal the intricacies of mother-child relationships.

Author : Jacinda Townsend
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393242959

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Saint Monkey: A Novel by Jacinda Townsend Pdf

"[A] compelling debut…Townsend's writing [is] full of fresh turns of phrase and keen insights." —Ayana Mathis, New York Times Book Review Fourteen-year-old Audrey Martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she’ll never get out of Kentucky—but when her fingers touch the piano keys, the whole church trembles. Her best friend, Caroline, daydreams about Hollywood stardom, but both girls feel destined to languish in a slow-moving stopover town in Montgomery County. That is, until chance intervenes and a booking agent offers Audrey a ticket to join the booming jazz scene in Harlem—an offer she can’t resist, not even for Caroline. And in New York City the music never stops. Audrey flirts with love and takes the stage at the Apollo, with its fast-dancing crowds and blinding lights. But fortunes can turn fast in the city—young talent means tough competition, and for Audrey failure is always one step away. Meanwhile, Caroline sinks into the quiet anguish of a Black woman in a backwards country, where her ambitions and desires only slip further out of reach. Jacinda Townsend’s remarkable first novel is a coming-of-age story made at once gripping and poignant by the wild energy of the Jazz Era and the stark realities of segregation. Marrying musical prose with lyric vernacular, Saint Monkey delivers a stirring portrait of American storytelling and marks the appearance of an auspicious new voice in literary fiction.