With her oldest son taking a gap year in Europe, her aging father losing his sight and his memory, and her husband of twenty years announcing that he's leaving her, Abbie Bartholomew Jowett is surrounded by overwhelming loss. Desperate to mend her marriage and herself, she follows her son, Bobby, to walk the famed Camino pilgrimage. During their journey they encounter Rasa, an Iranian woman working in secret helping other refugees, and Caroline, a journalist who is studying pilgrims on the Camino while searching for answers from her broken past. Each individual has their own reasons for the pilgrimage, but together they learn that the Camino strips you bare and calls you into deep soul-searching that can threaten all your best laid plans.
On every page, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.
A look at the flight of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between 1940 and 1970 presents the migrants' stories about everything from rural sharecropper shacks to urban housing projects.
A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective-the story of one man's bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage.
Ferguson, “Public Worshipofthe Lord,”Christian Magazine1(1848); 42–43; Jesse B. Ferguson, quoted in Enos E. Dowling,An Analysisofthe IndexoftheChristian Magazine 1848–1953 (Lincoln,Ill.: Lincoln Bible InstitutePress, 1958),ii.
For Somner, each new luxury - ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful promised land.
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On every page, Gish Jen sets our received notions spinning with a wit as dry as a latter-day Jane Austen's.
It wasn’t until years later that he discovered how much more there was to the story. At its heart, Their Promised Land is the story of cultural assimilation.
But as soon as I got up that morning, I could tell that Dad was going to be a real drag. ... just saying the stupid things that white people say to little colored boys with a smile on their faces, and the little colored boys are ...
"A courageous young woman who was raised as a boy learns of an evil poacher's plan to steal a powerful gem. On a dangerous jungle quest to save the animal kingdom from harm, a childhood friendship transforms into love"--Back cover.