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02376aam a22003738i 4500 001 BA9D1A6EF6EC11E98FCBA77297128E48 003 SILO 005 20191025010019 008 190801t20192019nyu 000 0deng 010 $a 2019017120 020 $a 160980953X 020 $a 9781609809539 035 $a (OCoLC)1079845096 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d JTH $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HN59.2 $b .G35 2019 082 00 $a 306.0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Garcia, J. Malcolm, $d 1957- $e author. 245 14 $a The fruit of all my grief : $b lives in the shadows of the American dream / $c J. Malcolm Garcia. 246 3 $a Lives in the shadows of the American dream 264 1 $a New York : $b Seven Stories Press, $c [2019] 300 $a 256 pages ; $c 21 cm 505 0 $a Sanctuary -- Fishing with the king -- The life sentence of Dicky Joe Jackson and his family -- And the walls came tumbling down -- Backyard battlefields -- Nothing went to waste : considering the life of Ben Kennedy -- What happens after sixteen years in prison -- A product of this town -- Smoke signals -- We are not just refugees -- New missions. 520 $a "Award-winning journalist, J. Malcolm Garcia's, essays highlight the struggle, survival, and endurance of average people affected by the injustices of America's remorseless mammoth institutions and public indifference. They include families and small businesses still recovering from the BP Oil Spill; the man sentenced to life in prison for transporting drugs to save his son's life; the widows of soldiers who died, not in war, but from toxic fumes they were exposed to at their bases overseas; the Iraqi interpreter who was promised American asylum, only to arrive and be forced to live in poverty; and the soaring narratives told in The Fruit of All My Grief let us feel the fears, hopes, and outrage of those living in the shadows of the 'American Dream'"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Social problems $z United States. 650 0 $a Marginality, Social $z United States. 650 0 $a American Dream. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 21st century. 941 $a 2 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20191203011843.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191025010139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BA9D1A6EF6EC11E98FCBA77297128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search