Publisher's Synopsis
Blue Heron Book Works loves stories and we are dedicated to the idea that everyone's individual story - not just those who live in the glare of the celebrity spotlight - is essential to the bigger story of who we are. It's not politically correct to assign characteristics to nationalities, and in fact most Americans wouldn't consider being American a nationality, claiming that we all come from somewhere else. And yet, after even one generation here - often sooner - the thing that we all have in common, the thing that makes us American, asserts itself and that is this: we look at everything with a child-like sense of the new. Nothing has associations that can't be reworked or reimagined. That's what Americans do: we reinvent ourselves constantly, create ourselves from scratch because all of us are starting over in some way. It's this looking at a situation for what it is without the judgement of generations that makes us the most creativ
