By Peggy Shumaker.
University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
In the wake of her near-fatal cycling collision, Peggy Shumaker searches for meaning within extremity. Through a long convalescence, she meditates on the meaning of justice and the role of love in the grueling process of healing.
Shumaker’s memoir explores our desire to understand the fragmented self, using the power [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Just Breathe Normally
Posted in Memoir on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons
Posted in South Asia on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Sumit Ganguly & Devin T. Hagerty.
Oxford University Press, 2006.
With the nuclearization of the Indian subcontinent, Indo-Pakistani crisis behavior has acquired a deadly significance. The past two decades have witnessed no fewer than six crises against the backdrop of a vigorous nuclear arms race. Except for the Kargil war of 1998-9, all these events were [...]
Reflections of a Khmer Soul
Posted in Cambodia, Southeast Asia on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Navy Phim
Wheatmark, 2007
Navy Phim explores what it means to be a child of the “Killing Fields.” Hers is the story of the middle generation growing up with, and trying to make sense of, two cultures and two worlds–the beauty and tragedy of her Cambodian past (her Khmer soul) and the comfortable restlessness of her [...]
Unlearning to Fly
Posted in Memoir on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Jennifer Brice.
University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Unlearning to Fly is the memoir of a bookworm growing up in Alaska—among people whose resilience, restlessness, and energy find their highest expression in winter ascents of Mount McKinley or first descents of wild rivers. These are the flying stories of a fearful pilot, one who admires but does [...]
