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Brandon Shimoda
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Winner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award
Best of 2019: Nonfiction - Entropy Magazine
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s lifelong struggle.
Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life - child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen - mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the 20th century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting.
Praise for The Grave on the Wall:
"Shimoda brings his poetic lyricism to this moving and elegant memoir, the structure of which reflects the fragmentation of memories.… It is at once wistful and devastating to see Midori's life come full circle.... In between is a life with tragedy, love, and the horrors unleashed by the atomic bomb." (Booklist, starred review)
"In a weaving meditation, Brandon Shimoda pens an elegant eulogy for his grandfather Midori, yet also for the living, we who survive on the margins of graveyards and rituals of our own making." (Karen Tei Yamashita, author of Letters to Memory)
"Sometimes a work of art functions as a dream. At other times, a work of art functions as a conscience. In the tradition of Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo, Brandon Shimoda's The Grave on the Wall is both. It is also the type of fragmented reckoning only America could instigate." (Myriam Gurba, author of Mean)
“Within this haunted sepulcher built out of silence, loss, and grief - its walls shadowed by the traumas of racial oppression and violence - a green river lined with peach trees flows beneath a bridge that leads back to the grandson." (Jeffrey Yang, author of Hey, Marfa: Poems)
"It is part dream, part memory, part forgetting, part identity. It is a remarkable exploration of how citizenship is forged by the brutal US imperial forces - through slave labor, forced detention, indiscriminate bombing, historical amnesia and wall. If someone asked me, Where are you from? I would answer, From The Grave on the Wall." (Don Mee Choi, author of Hardly War)
"Shimoda intercedes into the absences, gaps and interstices of the present and delves the presence of mystery. This mystery is part of each of us. Shimoda outlines that mystery in silence and silhouette, in objects left behind at site-specific travels to Japan and in the disparate facts of his grandpa’s FBI file. Gratitude to Brandon Shimoda for taking on the mystery which only literature accepts as the basic challenge." (Sesshu Foster, author of City of the Future)
"Shimoda is a mystic writer… He puts what breaches itself (always) onto the page, so that the act of writing becomes akin to paper-making: an attention to fibers, coagulation, texture and the water-fire mixtures that signal irreversible alteration or change.… He has written a book that touches the bottom of my own soul." (Bhanu Kapil, author of Ban en Banlieue)
"The Grave on the Wall is a passage of aching nostalgia and relentless assembly out of which something more important than objective truth is conjured - a ritual frisson, a veracity of spirit. I am grateful to have traveled along.” (Trisha Low, The Believer)
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In The First Man, Albert Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boy's attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. The result is a moving journey through the lost landscape of youth that also discloses the wellsprings of Camus's aesthetic powers and moral vision.
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Great Narration by Jefferson Mays
- De Sean Patrick Stevens en 07-31-21
De: Albert Camus
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Desert Notebooks
- A Road Map for the End of Time
- De: Ben Ehrenreich
- Narrado por: David Bendena
- Duración: 11 h y 42 m
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Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, Desert Notebooks offers a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present - perfect for fans of Robert Macfarlane and Elizabeth Rush - that’s unflinching, urgent, and yet timeless and profound.
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Not about the desert, Not about Joshua Tree
- De Steve King en 07-12-20
De: Ben Ehrenreich
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- De: Charles Pellegrino
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
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The Pica-Don
- De Tad Davis en 09-07-20
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Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Essays
- De: Michael Paterniti
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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In the 17 wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge.
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Incredibly intimate voice for humanity
- De Ed Hodges en 01-02-16
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Creatures of Passage
- De: Morowa Yejidé
- Narrado por: Morowa Yejidé
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, 10-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the "River Man".
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This is the one
- De just_watching en 04-27-21
De: Morowa Yejidé
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What You Have Heard Is True
- A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
- De: Carolyn Forché
- Narrado por: Carolyn Forché
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman’s brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. Written by one of the most gifted poets of her generation, this is the story of a woman’s radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life.
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Beautiful story
- De Norhilda en 05-09-19
De: Carolyn Forché
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The Yellow House
- De: Sarah M. Broom
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 14 h y 18 m
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In 1961, Sarah M. Broom’s mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. A book of great ambition, Sarah M. Broom’s The Yellow House tells a hundred years of her family and their relationship to home in a neglected area of one of America’s most mythologized cities.
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Great book. I wish the pictures had been included.
- De Lindsay en 02-28-20
De: Sarah M. Broom
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Nine Continents
- A Memoir In and Out of China
- De: Xiaolu Guo
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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Xiaolu Guo has traveled further than most to become who she needed to be. Now, as she experiences the birth of her daughter in a London maternity ward surrounded by women from all over the world, she looks back on that journey. It begins in the fishing village shack on the East China Sea where her illiterate grandparents raised her, and brings her to a rapidly changing Beijing, full of contradictions: a thriving underground art scene amid mass censorship, curious Westerners who held out affection only to disappear back home.
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must read
- De Jeff Darlington en 10-22-17
De: Xiaolu Guo
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My Father's Paradise
- A Son's Search For His Family's Past
- De: Ariel Sabar
- Narrado por: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly 3,000 years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made mystics and gifted storytellers and humble peddlers who dwelt in harmony with their Muslim and Christian neighbors in the mountains of northern Iraq. To these descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel, Yona Sabar was born.
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Fantastic and interesting story:-) Glad I read it.
- De Justin Hickman en 03-01-25
De: Ariel Sabar
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What Storm, What Thunder
- De: Myriam J.A. Chancy
- Narrado por: Ella Turenne
- Duración: 11 h
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The Earth had buckled, and, in that movement, all that was not in its place fell upon the Earth’s children, upon the blameless as well as the guilty, without discrimination. At the end of a long sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster
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We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- De AuthorAnnaBella en 03-15-22
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America Is in the Heart
- De: Carlos Bulosan, Elaine Castillo - foreword, E. San Juan Jr. - introduction, y otros
- Narrado por: Ramon de Ocampo
- Duración: 13 h y 26 m
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Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. Bulosan's semi-autobiographical novel America Is in the Heart begins with the narrator's rural childhood in the Philippines and the struggles of land-poor peasant families affected by US imperialism after the Spanish-American War of the late 1890s.
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Pointless, wandering narrative poorly performed
- De B. Bartok en 08-15-20
De: Carlos Bulosan, y otros
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Orange World and Other Stories
- De: Karen Russell
- Narrado por: full cast
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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Karen Russell’s comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner in lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. In “Bog Girl”, a revelatory story about first love, a young man falls in love with a 2,000-year-old girl that he’s extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In “The Prospectors”, two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. Plus much more.
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Wild Ride
- De Georgia en 02-07-20
De: Karen Russell
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The Latehomecomer
- A Hmong Family Memoir
- De: Kao Kalia Yang
- Narrado por: Kao Kalia Yang
- Duración: 9 h y 23 m
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In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States, all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family's story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together.
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Great Hmong history, lousy literature
- De Isadore Ducasse en 10-12-18
De: Kao Kalia Yang