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All the Ways We Lied
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

All the Ways We Lied

Meet the Manoukians—a dysfunctional Armenian family—and the fraying rope that binds them. Set in Queens, New York, while a father deteriorates from terminal illness, three sisters contend with one another, their self-destructive pasts, and their indomitable mother as they face the loss of the one person holding their unstable family together. Kohar, the oldest sister, is happily married, yet grapples with fertility issues and, in turn, her own self-worth. Lucine, the middle child, is trapped in a loveless marriage and haunted by memories of her estranged father. Azad, the beloved youngest child, is burdened by an inescapable cycle of failed relationships. By turns heartfelt and heart-wrenching, All the Ways We Lied introduces a cast of tragically flawed but lovable characters on the brink of unraveling. With humor and compassion, this spellbinding tale explores the fraught and contradictory landscape of sisterhood, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common, and are bound by blood and history.

The Legacy of Lost Things
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

The Legacy of Lost Things

Aida Zilelian’s breathtaking debut novel, The Legacy of Lost Things, follows three generations of a family of Armenian immigrants living in the United States, as they struggle with one another and against the Old World expectations of their community. When Araxi, the oldest daughter of the desperately unhappy Levon and Tamar, goes missing, the remaining family members are forced to confront their painful histories together, and the role each of them has played in driving Araxi away. Through Araxi and her family, readers are given a unique look at the generational and cultural tensions that both keep families together and tear them apart. Using spare, poignant prose, Zilelian deftly explores the themes of romance, duty, infidelity and guilt. Because of the mature content, this book is intended for adult and young adult audiences.

PaniK
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

PaniK

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

PaniK is a compilation of true stories submitted by men and women from all over the United States. They have experienced some of life's greatest challenges-single parenting, abortion, adoption, miscarriage, and stillbirth. This collection of 60 stories will give the reader a new perspective, heal a wound, or just embrace another, through words. This book is NOT pro-life or pro-choice. It is real life and what we make of it. These amazing stories will help give support to those who are or who will be going through similar circumstances. This project also gives the writer an outlet to finally have a voice. This is an on-going project. You can submit your story to be a part of this ever growing project. Testimonial for this project. "I feel that Help Inspire Others is a powerful force through which people, who have seen and felt the same experiences, can come together and offer support when the journey becomes turbulent." For more information visit www.Helpinspireothers.com.

Two-Countries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Two-Countries

The IPPY Award–winning anthology of poetry, memoir, and essays—“accounts of assimilation and nostalgia, celebration and resistance” (Rick Barot, author of The Galleons). This collection contains contributions from sixty-five writers who were either born and/or raised in the United States by one or more immigrant parent. Their work describes the many contradictions, discoveries and life lessons one experiences when one is neither seen as fully American nor fully foreign. Contributors include Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, and many other talented writers from throughout the United...

Transfusion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 66

Transfusion

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-08-15
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Short Story Collection

These Summer Months
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

These Summer Months

Writers from Japan, Mexico, Canada, and many locations in the United States share their very personal experiences after the death of their parents. The second volume of stories from The Late Orphan Project, These Summer Months will shock you, speak to your relationship with your parents, and remind you how, even though we come from so many different places, when our parents die, we are all just children, experiencing a long season of personal grief. This book guarantees you will reconsider your relationship with your own parents. Contributing authors: Lorraine Berry Karen Blue Clive Collins Greg Correll Don Fleming Mary Kay Fleming Claire Fitzpatrick Lee Gaitan Liz Gauthier Christine Geery Sue Glasco Kathy Koches Lea Lane Brianna Meinke Susan Mihalic Erin O'Meara Scottt Raven Bonafide Rojas Brian T. Silak Rob Smith Suzanne Smith Molly Stevens T.K. Thorne Margaret Van Every Eileen Wiard Aida Zilelian If you would like more information on the Late Orphan Project, or the previous volume of stories, These Winter Months: The Late Orphan Project Anthology, please contact lateorphanproject@gmail.com.

We Got This
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 277

We Got This

In the United States, more than 15 million women are parenting children on their own, either by circumstance or by choice. Too often these moms who do it all have been misrepresented and maligned. Not anymore. In We Got This, seventy-five solo mom writers tell the truth about their lives—their hopes and fears, their resilience and setbacks, their embarrassments and triumphs. Some of these writers’ names will sound familiar, like Amy Poehler, Anne Lamott, and Elizabeth Alexander, while others are about to become unforgettable. Bound together by their strength, pride, and—most of all— their dedication to their children, they broadcast a universal and empowering message: You are not alone, solo moms—and your tenacity, courage, and fierce love are worthy of celebration.

Immigrant Daughter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Immigrant Daughter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-08-21
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"American-born Catherine knows little of her Croatian mother's early life. When Marijana dies of ovarian cancer, twenty-two-year-old Catherine finds herself cut off from the past she never really knew. As Catherine searches for clues to her mother's elusive history, she discovers that Marijana was orphaned during WWII, nearly died as a teenager, and escaped from Communist Yugoslavia to Rome, and then South America. Through travel and memory, history and imagination, Catherine resurrects the relatives she's never known. Traversing time and place, memoir and novel, this lyrical narrative explores the collective memory between mothers and daughters, and what it means to find wholeness. It is a story where a daughter gives voice to her immigrant mother's unspoken history, and in the process, heals them both."--Amazon.com.

Swimming Back to Trout River
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Swimming Back to Trout River

A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution that follows a father’s quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter’s momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls “one of the most beautiful debuts I’ve read in years.” How many times in life can we start over without losing ourselves? In the summer of 1986, in a small Chinese village, ten-year-old Junie receives a momentous letter from her parents, who had left for America years ago: her father promises to return home and collect her by h...