The Great Gold Rush
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If Any Man Sin
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The Hand of the Mighty, and Other Stories
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The Image and the Likeness
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The Imitator
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James Oliver Curwood, Disciple of the Wilds
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From a Bench in Our Square
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The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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Idolatry; A Romance
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Fresh Leaves
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The Happy End
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From Kingdom to Colony
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From Sand Hill to Pine
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Jacqueline of Golden River
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Jason, Son of Jason
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Jaquelina
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From Place to Place
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Friendship Village Love Stories
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Friendship and Folly A Novel
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Jan Vedder's Wife
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The Happiest Time of Their Lives
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Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood
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Unpunished Crimes
Unpunished Crimes, the third novel in the Collingwood Series, finds Winson's wife, Caitlin, pregnant and missing. How will Winson find her and cope with hostile circumstances?"As moral and ethical conundrums arise, Winson begins to see the kinds of choices and their consequences as elements that could challenge and ultimately change not only his world but society as a whole." - Donovan's Literary Services"The Collingwood Series is Canadian historical fiction at its best." - Midwest Book ReviewFans of Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts and Lisa See's Lady Tan's Circle of Women will enjoy this captivating story of history, suspense, and love.What readers are saying..."Suspense, intrigue, and systemic racism are what makes the pages fly in this third book in the Collingwood Series. A page turner about a Chinese man in Canada who faces many challenges but guides his way through each by using lessons learned from his wise grandfather and his essential characteristics of being honest, having integrity, being kind and caring, but most of all, his ability to persevere. We can all learn some valuable lessons from Winson." Amazon review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Unpunished Crimes is the third book in the Collingwood Series and is literally a crescendo of mystery, suspense, and adventure in the life of Winson and Kate. It is a most fitting and exciting conclusion to these three novels. It contrasts the cultures, racism, injustice, and bigotry at every level of society interwoven into a captivating and fast paced read that you can't put down." Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"I enjoyed the lively descriptions and dialogues in Unpunished Crimes, the third book in the Collingwood Series, which rounds out Winson's life story. Repeatedly confronted by evil, he stubbornly holds to the lessons of his early childhood, believing in and willing to fight for goodness. As I saw him maturing and becoming increasingly successful, it became obvious - the Collingwood Series tells the story of immigrants all over the world." Amazon review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐"Great twists and turns to the story. I highly recommend reading the entire Collingwood Series, and it makes a for a wonderful book club discussion." Goodreads ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Author's Note: the Collingwood Series should be read in chronological order and not as individual stand-alone titles because of the background of events, characters, and storylines.
Connecticut Characters
Connecticut Characters: Profiles of Rascals and Renegades is a collection of the most popular profiles and colorful accounts written by long-time columnist Randall Beach. His columns were written over a span of 40 years and are fondly remembered by many New Haven Register readers. When Randall began writing the column, some of his newsroom colleagues dubbed the subjects "creep of the week" because often the subjects were so odd and eccentric. But none of them were "creeps;" they simply had a different way of looking at the world and of living. He always strove to give them dignity along with recognition. His writings always strike an affectionate tone and are often humorous, but never mocking. The individuals that he wrote were from all over Connecticut--well beyond the New Haven area. The collection focuses on some well-known people, such as former Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, but mostly the profiles are of people, some colorful, who are part of the fabric of the state.It's a remarkable and fascinating collection of profiles about people from all different walks of life around Connecticut.
Living Blue in the Red States
Political pundits never tire of reminding us of the great cultural divide between conservative "red" states and liberal "blue" ones. But common sense tells us that not all people in these states can be politically like-minded. David Starkey, a former red-state resident, wondered what politically progressive creative writers were feeling in the wake of George W. Bush's reelection. How, Starkey asked contributors, does one live blue in a red state. This book supplies many answers. Writers as different as Jonis Agee and Stephen Corey, Robin Hemley and Lee Martin (a 2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist in fiction), Donald Morrill and Wyoming poet laureate David Romtvedt describe what it is like to live in a region that doesn't always share one's values. While pointedly progressive, the collection brings together the work of essayists who look beyond the passions of the moment--the war in Iraq, the rallying of the Right around social issues, the Democrats' failure in 2004--to the need for unity. Sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, always enlightening, these essayists' views testify to the power of writing to bring us together as one nation of whatever color.
The Greater Body
In The Greater Body, William Young explores the work of key midcentury American poets and fiction writers of a romantic bent. Beginning with the American work of influential Englishman D.H. Lawrence, Young proceeds through both close reading and contextual registers to identify a romantic, atavistic strain that runs counter to the predominant approach of both an earlier modernism and later postmodernism. The chapters address the work of Lawrence, Paul Bowles, Robert Lowell, John Ashbery, William Stafford, Raymond Carver, and Tim O'Brien, among others.
Voices Behind The Veil
"Voices behind the veil" is a collection of almost all of the poems I have written over the past six years. These poems are about ideas--ideas about people, ideas about things and ideas about ideas. The poems capture random thoughts that have popped into my head from time to time.In Section one, there are twenty-five poems that explore ideas about Christmas. Section Two is titled "Discussions". The poems in this section cover a range of topics. I hope that you will enjoy all of these poems and actively engage with them.
Poisoned Arrows
Take a step back...back to the ancient times. After the stunning Igneri-Arawak beauty, Barbe, and Xamba--the innocent, pubescent daughter of an Arawak chief--are kidnapped from their village on Saba by Kalinago warriors and taken to St Kitts, their seventeenth century lives become a series of island hoppings. Poisoned Arrows, carved from the shafts of historical facts and embellished with unbridled imagination, is the result of exhaustive research into the lives of island people who beachcombed, island-hopped and spearfished before us. Come hear the stories of the Arawaks and Caribs--the West Indian indigenous people--in ways you have NEVER heard before!
Over Prairie Trails
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Blue
Her first lyrical collection, Tanicia Pratt tells an autobiographical story of love, heartbreak and the inescapable blue. In a country where seas mirror skies, and the shore is never too far away, blue is the central hue modelling The Bahamas and its many complexities. Each poem dives deeper and deeper as the poet unearths themes surrounding family, the body, trauma, and nationhood. BLUEis poetic jazz - edged and raw in its depictions of Caribbean culture - a soundtrack for women who dare to love (in) their country.
Modern Brazilian Short Stories
The seventeen stories in this anthology have been carefully chosen to provide a wide, representative range of recent and contemporary Brazilian themes and styles. The scenes vary from a nearly abandoned village or a ranch in the northeastern backlands to the streets of Rio and Sao Paulo. The characters, equally diverse, embrace wealthy land-owners, middle-class merchants, cowboys, thieves and prostitues. There is a diversity too in modd. Especially striking is the irony found in most of these stories. Characteristic of much of the best Brazilian fiction from Machado de Assis to Guimaraes Rosa, this irony tempers the underlying warmth of the stories with a certain wryness. Incidentally, Guimaraes Rosa, the giant of contemporary Brazilian fiction, is represented in this collection by an unconventional and unforgettable little masterpiece, "The Third Bank of the River." Brazilian humor is siad to be much like North American humor. In any case, it is here in abundance, variously mordant, hilarious, casual, homely, nostalgic, and, in Graciliano Ramos's story of an inept thief, almost Chaplinesque. But there is also a certain voluptuous melancholy, the much bruited tristeza brasileira. In such stories as "My Father's Hat," it blend with the humor to produce and enchantment profoundly Brazilian in ton and feeling. "The Crime of the Mathematics Professor" is a strange plunge into the mystery of a man's sense of guilt. With this sole exception, the stories in the present anthology are thoroughly Brazilian and yet, by a sort of mass literary miracle, universal. The reader may find the setting and the manners exotic at times, but he will understand the people. For there is a pervasive humanity in Brazil's best writers and, even when the "local color" is striking, they are never merely parochial. When their settings are provincial it is because the provinces are where they can see the human comedy most vividly. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Modern Brazilian Short Stories
The seventeen stories in this anthology have been carefully chosen to provide a wide, representative range of recent and contemporary Brazilian themes and styles. The scenes vary from a nearly abandoned village or a ranch in the northeastern backlands to the streets of Rio and Sao Paulo. The characters, equally diverse, embrace wealthy land-owners, middle-class merchants, cowboys, thieves and prostitues. There is a diversity too in modd. Especially striking is the irony found in most of these stories. Characteristic of much of the best Brazilian fiction from Machado de Assis to Guimaraes Rosa, this irony tempers the underlying warmth of the stories with a certain wryness. Incidentally, Guimaraes Rosa, the giant of contemporary Brazilian fiction, is represented in this collection by an unconventional and unforgettable little masterpiece, "The Third Bank of the River." Brazilian humor is siad to be much like North American humor. In any case, it is here in abundance, variously mordant, hilarious, casual, homely, nostalgic, and, in Graciliano Ramos's story of an inept thief, almost Chaplinesque. But there is also a certain voluptuous melancholy, the much bruited tristeza brasileira. In such stories as "My Father's Hat," it blend with the humor to produce and enchantment profoundly Brazilian in ton and feeling. "The Crime of the Mathematics Professor" is a strange plunge into the mystery of a man's sense of guilt. With this sole exception, the stories in the present anthology are thoroughly Brazilian and yet, by a sort of mass literary miracle, universal. The reader may find the setting and the manners exotic at times, but he will understand the people. For there is a pervasive humanity in Brazil's best writers and, even when the "local color" is striking, they are never merely parochial. When their settings are provincial it is because the provinces are where they can see the human comedy most vividly. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John FreemanIn the past fifty years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of styles have brought this unique genre a thrilling burst of energy. The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story celebrates this avalanche of talent. This rich anthology begins in 1970 and brings together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including--for the first time in a collection of this scale--science fiction, horror, and fantasy, placing writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Ken Liu, and Stephen King next to some beloved greats of the literary form: Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Denis Johnson. Culling widely, John Freeman, the former editor of Granta and now editor of his own literary annual, brings forward some astonishing work to be regarded in a new light. Often overlooked tales by Dorothy Allison, Percival Everett, and Charles Johnson will recast the shape and texture of today's enlarging atmosphere of literary dialogue. Stories by Lauren Groff and Ted Chiang raise the specter of engagement in ecocidal times. Short tales by Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, and Lydia Davis rub shoulders with near novellas by Susan Sontag and Andrew Holleran. This book will be a treasure trove for readers, writers, and teachers alike.
Appalachian Review - Winter 2022
This issue of the Appalachian Review (formerly Appalachian Heritage) features fiction from Gavin Colton and Christopher Labaza; creative nonfiction from Jacquelyn Scott and Michael Dowdy; poetry from Jeremy Paden, Rebecca Lilly, David S. Higdon, Jaycee Billington, Ace Englehart, Katy Luxem, and Adam Moore; an interview with poet Marianne Worthington, and more. For more information including how to subscribe to the journal please visit appalachianreview.net.
Black Fire This Time
This anthology, nearly sixty years in the making, features over one hundred poets and writers on the theme of "Black is Beautiful, Black is Powerful, Black is Home." Exploring the past, present, and future of Black writing, this collection bridges many of the founders of the Black Arts Movement--including Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti, Amiri Baraka, Wanda Coleman, Dudley Randall, Eugene B. Redmond, and Askia Tour矇--with contemporary established writers in the tradition such as brian g. gilmore--to Ishmael Reed's "younger generation"--Karla Brundage, Allison E. Francis, Tongo Eisen-Martin, and C. Liegh McInnis. Designed as an open conversation between generations bridging hearts and minds across decades, Black Fire--This Time's works are rooted in preservation, reverence, and discovery. Several little-known works are included for the first time. New works--from established writers as well as emerging talent--share this historic debut. Black Fire--This Time also stands out for its inclusion of many voices that were underrepresented in previous anthologies, most notably Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing (1968) and its ancestor, The New Negro (1925). The works of writers such as Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin provide a more complete view of the myriad perspectives on Black identity and writing.
My Three Little Dots on the Big World Map
There is more in store in this fun-pact read, Some facts on these three dots are all you need.These tiny dots known as the Cayman IslandsHave kind people and beaches with white sands
Conversations with Jerome Charyn
This volume of fourteen interviews covers the prolific and rich career of author Jerome Charyn (b. 1937). Four of the interviews appear in English for the first time, and two interviews appear here in print for the first time as well. As one of his autobiographical volumes claims, Jerome Charyn is a "Bronx Boy," a child born from immigrant parents who went through Ellis Island in the 1920s like so many other travelers without luggage, a "little werewolf" who grew up on his own in the chaos of the Bronx ghetto. "I think I was defined by two things: World War II and the movies." His work remains deeply marked by this childhood largely forgotten by the American Dream. If Charyn has spent much of his life in Paris, he has paradoxically never left the Bronx: "'El Bronx' is there inside my head, and I revisit it the way Hemingway would fish the Big Two-Hearted River in his dreams." His whole work is a long attempt at evoking his own history and celebrating his lifelong marveling at the power of language--"our second skin"--as well as his deep, unflinching belief in the promises of fiction. Since 1964, Charyn has published more than fifty books ranging from fiction to nonfiction and including short stories; very popular crime novels; graphic novels cowritten with European artists; essays on American culture and cinema as well as on New York; autobiography; and biography--an ever-changing production that has made it difficult for critics to classify him. And yet in many ways Charyn's writing thrives on constant currents: the words "voice," "song," "undersong," or "rhythm" return frequently in his interviews as he explains what literature is to him and ceaselessly asserts that he is trying "to find a music for a musicless world," a language for "people who cannot speak."
Transatlantic Anglophone Literatures, 1776-1920
This anthology provides a single, convenient volume of diverse primary texts supporting the teaching and research field of Anglophone Transatlantic literature and print culture in the long nineteenth century. Focusing on ongoing and shared concerns and social practices across the long nineteenth century, the book's thematically-organised sections mark major Transatlantic social movements of that era as expressed, negotiated, and recorded through literary production. The Anthology offers a range of tools and texts for innovative thinking, teaching, and exploration. Headnotes provide guidance on how individual selections arose from social and historical contexts and, often, suggest potential pairings with other selections. Annotations create student-friendly identification of key terms or allusions.
The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack LondonPercival Ford wondered why he had come. He did not dance. He did not care much for army people. Yet he knew them all-gliding and revolving there on the broad lanai of the Seaside, the officers in their fresh-starched uniforms of white, the civilians in white and black, and the women bare of shoulders and arms. After two years in Honolulu the Twentieth was departing to its new station in Alaska, and Percival Ford, as one of the big men of the Islands, could not help knowing the officers and their women. But between knowing and liking was a vast gulf. The army women frightened him just a little. They were in ways quite different from the women he liked best-the elderly women, the spinsters and the bespectacled maidens, and the very serious women of all ages whom he met on church and library and kindergarten committees, who came meekly to him for contributions and advice. He ruled those women by virtue of his superior mentality, his great wealth, and the high place he occupied in the commercial baronage of Hawaii. And he was not afraid of them in the least. Sex, with them, was not obtrusive. Yes, that was it. There was in them something else, or more, than the assertive grossness of life. He was fastidious he acknowledged that to himself and these army women, with their bare shoulders and naked arms, their straight-looking eyes, their vitality and challenging femaleness, jarred upon his sensibilities. Nor did he get on better with the army men, who took life lightly, drinking and smoking and swearing their way through life and asserting the essential grossness of flesh no less shamelessly than their women. He was always uncomfortable in the company of the army men. They seemed uncomfortable, too. And he felt, always, that they were laughing at him up their sleeves, or pitying him, or tolerating him. Then, too, they seemed, by mere contiguity, to emphasize a lack in him, to call attention to that in them which he did not possess and which he thanked God he did not possess. Faugh! They were like their women! In fact, Percival Ford was no more a woman's man than he was a man's man. A glance at him told the reason. He had a good constitution, never was on intimate terms with sickness, nor even mild disorders but he lacked vitality. His was a negative organism.
Ideal Minds
Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls "neo-idealism" as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.In a heterodox intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, Ideal Minds mixes ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical economics, and the sociology of religion. Trask also delves into the decade's more esoteric branches of learning, including Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic channeling, and neo-Malthusianism. Through this investigation, Trask argues that a dramatic inflation in the value of consciousness and autonomy beginning in the 1970s accompanied a growing argument about the state's inability to safeguard such values. Ultimately, the thinkers Trask analyzes--John Rawls, Arne Naess, L. Ron Hubbard, Hal Lindsey, Philip Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Edward Abbey, William Burroughs, John Irving, and James Merrill--found alternatives to statism in conditions that would lend intellectual support to the consolidation of these concepts in the radical free market ideologies of the 1980s.
Yearning to Breathe Free - A Community Journal of 2020
An anthology of works first published in the Benicia Herald between April 1 and November 1, 2020. This volume deals with the whole range of issues society faced in that time: pandemic woes, masking, the disturbances caused by the death of George Floyd, and the entire gamut of a stunningly different year."How did we make sense of being scared, isolated, wanting to fix what was wrong in 2020? Challenged at every level and in every corner, our community found in these writings a consistently dependable place to calm our fears, to renew our hope and courage."-Elizabeth Patterson, Mayor of Benicia, 2014-2020
Universal Citizen
A book of poetry and other writings focused on politics and politically-related subject matter. Written from the experiences and perspective of a Black man and a Black poet who sees the political landscape in the United States from his perspective. This book encourages thinking and considering the living conditions of African Americans in the United States.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar
Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy (1892) and Majors and Minors (1896), Paul Laurence Dunbar earned a reputation as an artist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who sought to capture and examine the diversity of the African American experience. In her poems, plays, and stories, Alice Dunbar Nelson explores themes of class, prejudice, faith, and romance while paying particular attention to the phenomenon of racial passing. Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose includes dozen of their individual literary works in a compact, carefully curated volume. Throughout his oeuvre, Dunbar explores the role of the poet in society, grounding each poem within his identity as a Black man in America. In "Frederick Douglass," an elegy written for the occasion of the great man's passing, Dunbar makes clear the consequences of pride and defiance in a nation built by slaves: "He dared the lightning in the lightning's track, / And answered thunder with his thunder back." In "The Place Where the Rainbow Ends," Dunbar, perhaps reflecting on his proximity to death, provides a simple song with a cautionary, utopian vision of hope and happiness: "Oh, many have sought it, / And all would have bought it, / With the blood we so recklessly spend; / But none has uncovered, / The gold, nor discovered / The spot at the rainbow's end." Meditative and bittersweet, Dunbar rejects wealth and power as a means of achieving fulfillment, looking instead to establish an inner peace for himself that he might "find without motion, / The place where the rainbow ends," a place "[w]here care shall be quiet, / And love shall run riot, / And [he] shall find wealth in [his] friends." Whether a vision of heaven or of the possibility of peace on earth, this poem finds echoes across Dunbar's penultimate volume. Nearing death at such a young age, he prepares himself to lose the life he had fought so hard to achieve, a life devoted to reaching the hearts and minds of others. Mine Eyes Have Seen (1918) is a one-act play by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Published in The Crisis, the influential journal of the NAACP, Mine Eyes Have Seen is a brutal portrait of race and identity in twentieth century America. Exploring themes of violence, faith, patriotism, and economic struggle, Dunbar Nelson crafts a poignant and unforgettable work of fiction. In the short story "The Goodness of St. Rocque," Manuela is a popular young woman of status in New Orleans' thriving Creole community. Like many women her age, she hopes to marry a handsome and successful man. Setting her sights on Theophile, she prepares to be courted in the traditional manner of her people. When rumor gets out that he has been spending time with Claralie, a beautiful blonde, Manuela is forced to seek supernatural assistance. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose is a classic of African American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Living on Islands Not Found on Maps
In these vulnerable pages, there are lessons and conversations with Audre Lorde, Tina Turner, Nikki Giovanni, and Naomi Ayala as well as my ancestors, children, the ocean, and me. All of it centering around inheritance, shame, grief, resilience, spirituality, and the multitudinous roles of women.
