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Housegirl
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Author : Michael Donkor
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2018-08-28
Housegirl written by Michael Donkor and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-28 with Fiction categories.
Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize • Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize • Nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Award • One of The Observer's "New Faces of Fiction" • One of The Millions' "Most Anticipated Books of the Year" • One of The Guardian's "Best Summer Books" (Selected by Kayo Chingonyi and Joe Dunthorne) • One of Library Journal's "Most Anticipated Fall Debuts" • One of The Observer's Best Books of the Year • An NPR "Staff Pick" and One of the NPR Book Concierge's "Best Books of the Year" A Go On Girl! Book Club Selection "Immensely readable...A refreshing story about coming of age in spite of conflicting ideas of what 'growing up' means."—Buzzfeed (The Best Books of Fall) A moving and unexpectedly funny exploration of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness, Michael Donkor's debut novel follows three adolescent girls grappling with a shared experience: the joys and sorrows of growing up. Belinda knows how to follow the rules. As a housegirl, she has learned the right way to polish water glasses, to wash and fold a hundred handkerchiefs, and to keep a tight lid on memories of the village she left behind when she came to Kumasi. Mary is still learning the rules. Eleven-years-old and irrepressible, the young housegirl-in-training is the little sister Belinda never had. Amma has had enough of the rules. A straight-A student at her exclusive London school, she has always been the pride of her Ghanaian parents—until now. Watching their once-confident teenager grow sullen and wayward, they decide that sensible Belinda is the shining example Amma needs. So Belinda must leave Mary behind as she is summoned from Ghana to London, where she tries to impose order on her unsettling new world. As summer turns to autumn, Belinda and Amma are surprised to discover common ground. But when the cracks in their defenses open up, the secrets they have both been holding tightly threaten to seep out.
The House Girl
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Author : Tara Conklin
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-02-12
The House Girl written by Tara Conklin and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-12 with Fiction categories.
“Assured and arresting...You cannot put it down.”” (Chicago Tribune) The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia. Two remarkable women, separated by more than a century, whose lives unexpectedly intertwine . . . 2004: Lina Sparrow is an ambitious young lawyer working on a historic class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the descendants of American slaves. 1852: Josephine is a seventeen-year-old house slave who tends to the mistress of a Virginia tobacco farm—an aspiring artist named Lu Anne Bell. It is through her father, renowned artist Oscar Sparrow, that Lina discovers a controversy rocking the art world: art historians now suspect that the revered paintings of Lu Anne Bell, an antebellum artist known for her humanizing portraits of the slaves who worked her Virginia tobacco farm, were actually the work of her house slave, Josephine. A descendant of Josephine's would be the perfect face for the lawsuit—if Lina can find one. But nothing is known about Josephine's fate following Lu Anne Bell's death in 1852. In piecing together Josephine's story, Lina embarks on a journey that will lead her to question her own life, including the full story of her mother's mysterious death twenty years before. Alternating between antebellum Virginia and modern-day New York, this searing tale of art and history, love and secrets explores what it means to repair a wrong, and asks whether truth can be more important than justice. Featuring two remarkable, unforgettable heroines, Tara Conklin's The House Girl is riveting and powerful, literary fiction at its very best.
Food Culture And Survival In An African City
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Author : K. Flynn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-27
Food Culture And Survival In An African City written by K. Flynn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-27 with Social Science categories.
A rich ethnographic portrait of food-provisioning processes in a contemporary African city, offering valuable lessons about the powerful roles of gender, migration, exchange, sex, and charity in food acquisition. Based on anthropologist Karen Coen Flynn's study of Mwanza, Tanzania, this work draws on the personal accounts of over 350 market vendors, low, middle and high-income consumers, urban farmers as well as those, including children, who live on the streets. This strikingly original work offers interdisciplinary appeal to a broad audience of both students and professionals interested in anthropology, African studies, urban studies, gender studies and development economics.
The Sabbath Days
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Author : Walter Max Poitzsch
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2012-08-29
The Sabbath Days written by Walter Max Poitzsch and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-29 with Fiction categories.
The Sabbath Day is a story about a man called Dabire K. Joseph. But he was giving the name Tegawende in the story because he believed in god. He named one of his daughters God-see. As she was growing up,she started to think about her family, situation, and their relationship with neighbors and friends, and it seemed to her that the more people lean toward God, the more they also struggle against evil. Then she end up in a village on a Sabbath day when she got chased by a giant snake.This was supposed to be a day of religious observation, yet the giant snake was about to eat her.So she thought there must be a struggle between good and evil during the days that people stop working and worship their god.And these days are the Sabbath Days. So she calls all the unpleasant moments shehad witnessed the Sabbath Days.
Hold
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Author : Michael Donkor
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2018-07-12
Hold written by Michael Donkor and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Fiction categories.
Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate, powerful coming-of-age novel. It’s a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when we need to let go.
I Came A Stranger
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Author : Hilda Polacheck
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1991-03
I Came A Stranger written by Hilda Polacheck and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck (1882-1967) never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, the markets, and the scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. Here, in charming and colorful prose, she recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community, her friendship with Jane Addams, her marriage, her support of civil rights, woman suffrage, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and her experiences as a writer for the WPA.
House Girls Remember
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Author : Margaret Rodman Critchlow
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2007-06-30
House Girls Remember written by Margaret Rodman Critchlow and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-30 with Social Science categories.
Giving voice to the women who worked as maids—known as "house-girls" in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu—is the goal of this innovative work. The stories the women tell resonate with the experiences of domestic workers around the world; their histories contribute to theorizing intimacy and traveling culture; and their struggles with adverse working conditions help find solutions, which are outlined at the end of the book. In addition to contributions by the editors, workshop reports by eleven ni-Vanuatu women fieldworkers and ten others who spoke about their lives as house-girls are included. These reports detail ni-Vanuatu women’s experiences as domestic workers during the colonial period. One chapter presents an elderly French woman’s recollections of the Vietnamese orphan who grew up in her home and worked as a house-girl. Material from contemporary house-girls appears in a final chapter based on research conducted in Port Vila.
Stupid Sally The Poor House Girl
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Author : Martha Finley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1868
Stupid Sally The Poor House Girl written by Martha Finley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1868 with Christian life categories.
The House Girl
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Author : Ufuomaee Emerhor-Ashogbon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-22
The House Girl written by Ufuomaee Emerhor-Ashogbon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-22 with Fiction categories.
Chinyere is excited when her aunty Chinwe comes to take her to Abuja to work for a rich family, who have also promised to send her to school. However, six months later, she's still out of school and it looks like her emotionally unstable and needy Madam, Osinachi, has no plans on changing that. After a weird but special encounter with her Oga, Donald, Chinyere feels bold enough to bring up the issue with him, so that she can go to school like her mates. However, Osinachi's suspicions about the pair is awakened when Donald insists that Osinachi gets a nanny, so that Chinyere will have more time for her studies. Osinachi is determined to find out their secret, but is not ready for the other secrets that will be exposed, which threaten to destroy everything she has worked so hard to build...
Patriarchy And Class
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Author : Sharon B Stichter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Patriarchy And Class written by Sharon B Stichter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with Political Science categories.
This book argues for the applicability of a materialist mode of production analysis to the situation of women in Africa. It briefly reviews some of the intellectual background and current theoretical dilemmas of marxism-feminism.