Carry Me Like Water
Title | Carry Me Like Water PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 530 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0062045989 |
"Sentimental and ferocious, upsetting and tender, firmly magic-realist yet utterly modern. . . Sáenz is a writer with greatness in him." —San Diego Union Tribune With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire Sáenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient. This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed— or that they tried to forget.
Carry Me Like Water
Title | Carry Me Like Water PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Alire Saenz |
Publisher | Harper Perennial |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005-09-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780060831332 |
This immensely moving novel confronts divisions of race, gender, and class, fusing together the stories of people who come to recognize one another from former lives they didn't know existed -- or that they tried to forget. Diego, a deaf-mute, is barely surviving on the border in El Paso, Texas. Diego's sister, Helen, who lives with her husband in the posh suburbs of San Francisco, long ago abandoned both her brother and her El Paso roots. Helen's best friend, Lizzie, a nurse in an AIDS ward, begins to uncover her own buried past after a mystical encounter with a patient. With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Alire SÁenz unfolds a beautiful story about hope and forgiveness, unexpected reunions, an expanded definition of family, and, ultimately, what happens when the disparate worlds of pain and privilege collide.
Carry Me Across the Water
Title | Carry Me Across the Water PDF eBook |
Author | Ethan Canin |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2001-07-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1588360075 |
“Take the advice of no one,” August Kleinman’s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate — a shocking encounter with a Japanese soldier in a cave during World War II, the audacious decision to start a brewery in Pittsburgh and a violent reaction against threats to its independent success, a vacation in Barbados, during which his beloved wife mysteriously wanders off, the birth of his grandson — August’s instincts are determinative in a way that illuminates how lives unfold at the deepest levels. This is a brilliant, suspenseful, surprising novel by one of America’s finest writers. Publisher’s Weekly called Ethan Canin’s For Kings and Planets “Masterful … a classic parable of the human condition,” and the same can be said about Carry Me Across the Water.
Carry Me Home
Title | Carry Me Home PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Fox |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2021-08-24 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1534485104 |
“A poignant and powerful reminder that homelessness is not hopelessness.” —Kirby Larson, author of Newbery Honor book Hattie Big Sky “A beautiful, haunting story… It carried my heart away with it.” —Ann Braden, author of The Benefits of Being an Octopus “A story about falling through the cracks and finding the light inside that darkness…Absorbing, moving, and deeply truthful.” —Martha Brockenbrough, author of The Game of Love and Death Two sisters struggle to keep their father’s disappearance a secret in this tender middle grade novel that’s perfect for fans of Katherine Applegate and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Twelve-year-old Lulu and her younger sister, Serena, have a secret. As Daddy always says, “it’s best if we keep it to ourselves,” and so they have. But hiding your past is one thing. Hiding where you live—and that your Daddy has gone missing—is harder. At first Lulu isn’t worried. Daddy has gone away once before and he came back. But as the days add up, with no sign of Daddy, Lulu struggles to take care of all the responsibilities they used to manage as a family. Lulu knows that all it takes is one slip-up for their secret to come spilling out, for Lulu and Serena to be separated, and for all the good things that have been happening in school to be lost. But family is all around us, and Lulu must learn to trust her new friends and community to save those she loves and to finally find her true home.
Calendar of Dust
Title | Calendar of Dust PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Carry Me Home
Title | Carry Me Home PDF eBook |
Author | Diane McWhorter |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 706 |
Release | 2001-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0743226488 |
Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era’s climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation. "The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America’s long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America’s second emancipation. In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible.
Carry Me, Mama
Title | Carry Me, Mama PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Devine |
Publisher | Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781550051506 |
Katie has viewed life from the safety of her mother's parka, one spring her mother decides that it is time for Katie to walk on her own. Katie is overwhelmed and begs, "Carry me, Mama!" but Mama knows that it is time for Katie to walk on her own.