171 records matched your query
04373aam a2200541Ii 4500 001 F79862F2BA6A11E98D0EBB5397128E48 003 SILO 005 20190809010018 008 190201t20192019nyua 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1948226227 020 $a 9781948226226 035 $a (OCoLC)1083715650 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d WIM $d CDX $d IH9 $d UAP $d WIM $d OCLCF $d UAP $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3569.T6795 $b Z46 2019 082 04 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Straight, Susan, $e author. 245 10 $a In the country of women : $b a memoir / $c Susan Straight. 264 1 $a New York : $b Catapult, $c [2019] 300 $a xviii, 363 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 505 00 $g Acknowledgements $t The Work of Women - Evaporation and Memory, white House #3 -- $t The First Bullet ; $t The Dance ; $t The Country Squire ; $t Nurse-in-Charge ; $t Hey Now ; $t Olympia - One Can Could Get You Pregnant ; $t Daisy Belle ; $t Driveway #1 - The First Love Letter -- $t Part II. $t Castas ; $t Mulato ; $t The Second Bullet ; $t Fruitful ; $t The Toast ; $t Fruitful #2 -- $t Part III. $t Run the World ; $t Wild Things ; $t Pig ; $t The Santa Ana River ; $t A Secondhand Lonely ; $t Dew Point - Pack of Four ; $t Love Strands ; $t Crosses and Missions ; $t Coach - Driveway #2 ; $t The Batmobile ; $t The Yard Couch ; $t Grizzly ; $t Nine ; $t Al Green - Driveway #1, The Second Love Letter ; $t Travels with My Ex in the Time of Revenue -- $t Part IV. $t Switzerland, Loveland, Cuddlyland ; $t Bring Me Your Smartest Girl ; $t Kin - White House #1 ; $t A Place of Style and Refuge - White House #2 ; $t Letter to My Nephew - Our Dungeon Shook (After James Baldwin) ; $t American Human Not Interested ; $t Braid/ZuÌpfe ; $t Ancestry ; $t Saphina ; $t The Work of Women - Evaporation and Memory, white House #3 -- $g Acknowledgements 520 $a "In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family, Straight--and eventually her three daughters--heard for decades the stories of Dwayne's female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight's mother-in-law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan's family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward--from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan--those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, "The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival." In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women." -- from Jacket. 600 10 $a Straight, Susan. 600 10 $a Straight, Susan $x Family. 650 0 $a Authors, American $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women authors $v Biography. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 19 952 $l GYPE631 $d 20240626010911.0 952 $l DFPC353 $d 20240430021719.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417015046.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305021703.0 952 $l CLPC792 $d 20221227010207.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220319010013.0 952 $l TSPC862 $d 20210526010746.0 952 $l YXPB162 $d 20201204011921.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20200829014853.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529020550.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20200414013216.0 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20200304012734.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204095620.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110082348.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20191105015646.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20191024010641.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20191005010527.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20191003010557.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20190904010924.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F79862F2BA6A11E98D0EBB5397128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search