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Erika's Amerika is Kristalenia Spyratos' first collection of short stories. Based on actual events that took place at the restaurant set up by her parents Tasso and Erika in Chicago... "Tasso's." Compiled with taste and relish, she presents us with a satisfying menu leaving us weel-read and suitably replete! Richard Goddard BSc (Hons), Dip Arch. RIBA FCSD FBIID A delightful collection of family stories, related with candour and charm. My flight from London to Athens was enlivened by every page. Thank you Kris for bringing touchdown so close to takeoff. Robert Bittlestone, Metapraxis Ltd. If only we could all make a 'life plan' and adhere to it! Erika and Tasso did just that, and some 40 years on they have returned home to Greece to tell their tales. This book documents 27 such tales, for everyone to share. Rita M Jordan B.Phil (Ed). Cert Ed. RSA Cert (Spec Lrng Diffs). The reading of one story is an invitation to read the next, like a chocolate bar, one irrestistable piece leads to another. A pleasantry comnpelling read. Stylishly written, well produced, and thoroughly enjoyable, Altogether an excellent first work. Miriam Innes Daferera B.Sc (Hons) Dip.Ed.
In Contours of White Ethnicity, Yiorgos Anagnostou explores the construction of ethnic history and reveals how and why white ethnics selectively retain, rework, or reject their pasts. Challenging the tendency to portray Americans of European background as a uniform cultural category, the author demonstrates how a generalized view of American white ethnics misses the specific identity issues of particular groups as well as their internal differences. Interdisciplinary in scope, Contours of White Ethnicity uses the example of Greek America to illustrate how the immigrant past can be used to combat racism and be used to bring about solidarity between white ethnics and racial minorities. Illumin...
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Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: the dazzling international bestseller from the author of The Virgin Suicides . a rollicking family epic like no other!