Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now
eBook - 2019
"Beautiful, brilliant, bold... Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook." —Christopher John Stephens, PopMattersWith luminous insight and fervent prose, Andre Perry's debut collection of personal essays, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, travels from Washington, DC, to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite universities and liberal bastions like San Francisco while coming of age in America.The essays in Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now take the form of personal reflection, multiple choice questions, screenplays, and imagined talk-show conversations, while travers...ing the daily minefields of childhood schoolyards and Midwestern dive-bars. The impression of Perry's personal journey is arresting and beguiling, while announcing the author's arrival as a formidable...
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Two Dollar Radio
- Language
- English
- Main Author
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
| Adobe EPUB eBook | |
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| File Size | 2 GB |
| ISBN | 9781937512842 |
| Release Date | 11/12/2019 |
| Kindle Book | |
| ASIN | B07VXQW84Q |
| Release Date | 11/12/2019 |
| OverDrive Read eBook | |
| ISBN | 9781937512842 |
| Release Date | 11/12/2019 |