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Walled Life
Going beyond a discussion of political architecture, Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices. The book reads political walls as more than physical obstruction, instead treating the wall as an affective screen, capable of negotiating the messy feelings, personal conflicts, and haunting legacies that make up “walled life” as an evolving signpost in the current global border regime. By exploring the wall as an emotional and visceral presence, the book shows that if we read political walls as forms of affective media, they become legible not simply as shields, impositions, or monuments, but as projective surfaces that nego...
The Unruly Dead
"What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?" asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to critical human rights scholarship. In Timor-Leste, a new nation-state that experienced centuries of European colonialism before a violent occupation by Indonesia from 1975 to 1999, the dead are active participants in social and political life who continue to operate within familial structures of obligation and commitment. On individual, local, and national levels, Timor-Leste is invested in various forms of memory work, including memorialization, exhumation, reburial, and commemoration of the occupation's victims. Such practices enliven the dead, allowing them to forge new ...
Jenny Alone
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Letters to Jenny
The New York Times–bestselling author of the Xanth novels wrote these weekly letters to a fan of is books in the hope of helping her out of a coma. In February 1989, science fiction writer Piers Anthony, author of the Xanth series, received a moving letter. It came from a woman whose daughter, Jenny, was in a coma as a result of severe injuries caused by a drunk driver. She asked Anthony to write to Jenny, an avid fan of his, in the hope that a letter from him would evoke some response. Her request resulted in a series of warm, supportive, and humorous letters written weekly from Anthony to Jenny. These were read to the patient by her mother. The original letters Anthony wrote between February 1989 and 1990, reproduced here along with Anthony’s comments, reveal the author’s wit, humanism, and social conscience. Jenny has come out of her coma, but is still confined to a wheelchair. Anthony also named a character in his next Xanth novel after Jenny, whose limited but definite physical responses to his letters indicated how important they were to her.
People We Love
For readers of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, David Nicholls Her life is on hold - until an unlikely visitor climbs in through the kitchen window A year after her brother's fatal accident, Lexie's life seems to have reached a dead end. She is back home in small-town Hailesbank with her shell-shocked parents, treading softly around their fragile emotions. As the family business drifts into decline, Lexie's passion for painting and for her one-time mentor Patrick have been buried as deep as her unexpressed grief, until the day her lunch is interrupted by a strange visitor in a bobble hat, dressing gown and bedroom slippers, who climbs through the window. Elderly Edith's batty appearance conceals a secret and starts Lexie on a journey that gives her an inspirational artistic idea and rekindles her appetite for life. With friends in support and ex-lover Cameron seemingly ready to settle down, do love and laughter beckon after all?
Dottyville
Jennifer Greenaway receives two phone calls in one day. The first telling her that her estranged mother Gypsy (Beryl on the birth certificate) needs help after shattering her pelvis during her weekly Tai Chi Qi Gong Class, and the second that her teenage daughter, Lizzie, is expelled from school. Jennifer is happy to help her daughter but where her mother is concerned she denies even knowing her. After an outrageous series of events, where amongst other things Jennifer discovers she may have been the cause of her psychotic neighbour blowing herself up, Jennifer has a sudden change of heart. Needing a place to stay she claims the mother she walked out on over twenty years ago and after a less...
Jenny and the Jaws of Life
A uniquely insightful short story collection with huge appeal to women of all ages. To quote from David Sedaris: 'It's the sort of book that leads to late night phone calls. "I know you're busy sleeping or whatever, but wait, I just want to read you this one passage-" You might peg Jincy Willett as a satirist but her stories are slipperier than that. Yes, they're often funny, but there's something else at work here... Jincy Willett excels in the moment, that split second when everything changes... .' These are stories that must be read - read one, and you won't stop till you've read them all.
Hidden from the Sun
Jenny Kalsner tells her story with the voice of a young child coupled with the reflections of an adult. Her memoire is clearly distinct from that of Ann Frank, in that she was only six when entering hiding. Jenny's limitations in hiding from the Nazis were greater than Anne's, but they helped her survive. This special story, told in powerful language, explores the stages of renewed self confidence and maturation that led Jenny to a life of fulfillment and satisfaction. Her early experiences are retold with artistic sensitivity and wisdom. "Poetically written, with emotion on every page, the reader is taken from laughter to tears . . . a remarkable book it should be required reading." Ellen Belitsky, author of "Perchance to Feast"
For Jenny's Sake
Eight years ago Erin Harrow fled her hometown in the wake of shame and scandal. She is back now as Erin Bennett, the widow of recently deceased billionaire Sheldon Bennett. She has returned to claim what is hers and to set the record straight on some important issues. Gabe Harrow has never recovered from his ex-wife's flight into oblivion. He has never forgiven her for disappearing without leaving a trace. She is back now and determined to take from him the one thing that gives his life meaning.
