![]() ![]() As each woman reveals her secrets, trying to unravel the truth about her life, the strings become more tangled, more entwined. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.” -Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich AsiansĪmy Tan’s beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters, now the focus of a new documentary Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir on Netflixįour mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. ![]() For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. ![]() “ The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Today’s fans have no problem recognizing names like Kevin Durant or Stephen Curry. Thousands of African-Americans have followed in the path of these men - great players like Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, who have helped the NBA evolve into a global attraction. 31, 1950, Lloyd, a member of the Washington Capitols, became the first African-American to play in an NBA game when he entered a game against the Rochester Royals. Clifton was the first to sign an NBA contract. Cooper was the first African-American to be drafted by an NBA team. Lloyd, Cooper, and Clifton entered the National Basketball Association in 1950 and became pioneers for today’s African-American basketball players. For Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper, and Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, it was a time to make history. ![]() Not that long ago, it was a time when African-Americans could not take simple privileges - like staying at certain hotels or eating in certain restaurants - for granted. NBA TV discusses Earl Lloyd's pioneering entrance to the NBA. ![]() ![]() ![]() Timothy Egan offers a stirring and affectionate portrait of an underknown figure in “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.” Egan, a Seattle-based author and a writer for The New York Times, asks us to see Curtis as a hero in the mythic Western mode - i.e., outdoorsy, virile, untainted by bourgeois values. ![]() Curtis spent his final years holed up in Southern California, living a marginal hand-to-mouth existence and consuming a pound of carrots a day in the hope of warding off blindness. His goal, he said, was to salvage a heritage from oblivion, to document all the tribes in North America that were still intact.The result was his magnum opus, “The North American Indian,” a 20-volume text-and-image extravaganza, published between 19, that was praised and then forgotten in short order. Traveling by rail, wagon and foot, he undertook a project that struck observers as ambitious and possibly insane. Edward Curtis deserves to be remembered as the American artist who racked up the most miles. ![]() ![]() Annie lives in her own head most of the time, unlike her parents, who are outgoing and exuberant with outstanding senses of humor and a skill for telling jokes as if they are stand up comics by profession.Īnnie loves history, and reading, and drawing, so when she turns five it is definitely more than time for her to begin attending Ellis School, which is a girls' school, but she does have some social contact with boys when she also starts Friday evening dance classes, with children from other Presbyterian families in the area. ![]() She lives in a nice area where women do not have to work and where families live in neighborhoods divided on religious grounds. Her home town, Pittsburgh, is newly fascinating to her. ![]() She is also starting to find out more about the world around her, and liking what she finds out. She feels like the world is very exciting. This coincides with Annie's discovery of adventure, as she has just read Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Kidnapped". Her father took his boat down the Allegheny River to New Orleans, which had been on his bucket list ever since he read about boat trips in a book. ![]() ![]() We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īnnie's father left his family for a little while when she was a child, but none of them felt abandoned, because it was a family decision for him to go. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() Talked to one of the fact checkers over at Little City Hall. “Better make up a Freedom of Information request, get one of your leaders to sign it. “So far can’t get anyone from the district to return my calls,” he said with a thin smile. “Any word from the district fire chief ’s office?” ![]() Two interwoven plots work their way through the narrative, one is absolutely true, the other never happened, but very well might have. Their search will lead them through a labyrinth of corrupt politicians, Asian gangsters and bent churchmen. ![]() Why? Who stands to gain?Ĭommunity organizer and Marine combat veteran, Jedidiah Flynt and Alex Jordan, his beautiful Harvard educated researcher together with a group of local property owners are determined to stop the redlining and and bring the arsonists responsible for Sandy Morgan’s death to justice. Now, someone has begun systematically torching those abandoned buildings and the charred body of Sandy Morgan, a dedicated young neighborhood organizer, has been found among the ashes. The banks have REDLINED Jamaica Plain, causing the housing market to crash, wiping out local homeowner’s lifetime investments and opening the neighborhood to blockbusters and slumlords. ![]() Boston’s Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood under siege, a community skating along the razor’s edge of decline. Genre: Historical Fiction/ Mystery/ Thriller Read on for an excerpt and a chance to win an audiobook edition of the book! ![]() Welcome to the blog tour for Redlined: A Novel of Boston by Richard W. ![]() |