A poor Mulatto girl is victim of prejudices in North Carolina, and is mercilessly gang-raped. She leaves town and becomes a Vegas showgirl where she meets writer Rachel O'Neill who is keynote speaker at a writer's conference. Jessica accepts Rachel's invitation to join her at her home in England.
A young, poor, Mulatto girl is a victim of prejudices in Skyler, North Carolina, and is mercilessly attacked and threatened. The day finally comes when Jessica Sanford leaves the hurt behind her in a search for answers. She finds a temporary career as a Vegas show-dancer, drawn in by the money. In Vegas, novelist Rachel O'Neill, from England, is a guest speaker at a writers' conference. Nearing sixty years old and three years a widow, she is piecing her life back together. New people and relationships contribute to her transition, and in the process her nurturing nature comes into play when she crosses paths with Jessica, a proud, beautiful showgirl who is eager to see the world.
A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
In this eccentric tale set in a small town in northern India, Pawan Mishra masterfully weaves ingenuity and sarcasm in a manner that’s simultaneously hilarious and tragic.
