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Never in a hurry : essays on people and places / Naomi Shihab Nye.
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- ISBN: 1570030820 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781570030826 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xii, 253 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1996.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Growing -- Newcomers in a Troubled Land -- The Cookies -- Commerce -- Three Pokes of a Thistle -- Thank You in Arabic -- One Village -- Local Hospitality -- Grazing -- Roses for Lubbock -- Camel Like Only Camel -- The Rattle of Wheels toward the Rooms of the New Mothers -- Nineties -- David Crockett's Other Life -- Favorite Cleaners, San Antonio -- Enigma -- My Life with Medicine -- Speaking Arabic -- Maintenance -- Tulips -- Pablo Tamayo -- The World and All Its Teeth -- Marie -- Keys -- Tomorrow We Smile -- Field Trip -- Neighborhood Quartet in a Minor Key -- Home Address -- Monumental -- Bread -- Broken Clock -- Poetry -- Banned Poem -- Women of the West -- Used Cars on Oahu -- Mint Snowball -- White Coals -- Talk, Talk, Talk -- One Moment on Top of the Earth. |
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| Subject: | Short stories. Essays > United States. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homer Public Library | 814.54 NYE (Text) | 000098950 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
School Library Journal Review
Never in a Hurry : Essays on People and Places
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YA-This collection of essays is an excellent addition to any library. Nye is a Palestinian American, married to a Swedish American, and has lived much of her life in San Antonio, TX. The essays are autobiographical reflections of people and places she has encountered throughout her life. She and her parents lived in Jerusalem for a year until the Six-Day War caused them to flee back to the United States; Nye and her husband have returned to her ancestral country on several occasions. The essays are short, quiet reflections on a variety of subjects. The author has the ability to perceive and describe her surroundings so skillfully that readers are drawn into these experiences and are enriched in the process. Such essays as "Favorite Cleaners, San Antonio" help readers step back, slow down, and contemplate the everyday role of the all too familiar in one's life. This collection is guaranteed to make YAs laugh, cry, reflect, or think about life from another point of view. Literature by and about the Arab experience in America is rare; to discover a well-written collection suitable for young adults is a joy.-Dottie Kraft, formerly at Fairfax County Public Schools, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Never in a Hurry : Essays on People and Places
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Nye is a Palestinian American poet whose world anthologies, such as This Same Sky (1992), have brought a host of new voices to American readers. Her picture book Sitti's Secrets (1994), about an American child's visit to her grandmother on the West Bank, is clearly autobiographical, and several of the lyrical essays and memoirs in this stirring collection draw on her experience across borders. The power of her writing is in the personal particulars, loving and rueful, whether she's talking about cleaning house in San Antonio, where she lives with her husband and son, or about the fun of gossip, or about the anguish in her six long years of infertility. It's the absence of rhetoric that makes unforgettable the scene where she returns with her father (the refugee) to his childhood home in Jerusalem and finds a friendly, innocent New Yorker (the settler) moving in. They like each other. --Hazel Rochman
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