Dream Me Home Safely Writers on Growing Up in America
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In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in." The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, "Your house smells funny," and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780618379026 |
Publisher: | HMH Books |
Imprint: | Mariner Books |
Pub date: | 22 Oct 2003 |
DEWEY: | 810.9005 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 223 |
Weight: | 317g |
Height: | 215mm |
Width: | 139mm |
Spine width: | 15mm |