Posted in Memoir, Middle East on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Aziz Shihab
Syracuse University Press, 2006.
Summoned by his dying mother, Palestinian-born Aziz Shihab returns from Texas to the homeland he and his family fled as refugees decades earlier. He finds an Israeli-occupied land no longer the one of his youth. This gripping book chronicles his month-long journey to capture a piece of the land that [...]
Posted in Memoir on September 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
