Author: Staci Lola Drouillard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452967717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babies—and there were so many—added more trouble but even more love. These are the aunties: Faye, who lived in California, and Lila, who lived just down the street; Doreen, who took on the bullies taunting her “mixed-blood” brothers and sisters; Gloria, who raised six children (no thanks to all of her “stupid husbands”); Betty, who left a marriage of indenture to a misogynistic southerner to find love and acceptance with a Norwegian logger; and Carol and Diane, who broke the warped molds of their own upbringing. From the fabric of these women’s lives, Staci Lola Drouillard stitches a colorful quilt, its brightly patterned pieces as different as her aunties, yet alike in their warmth and spirit and resilience, their persistence in speaking for their generation. Seven Aunts is an inspired patchwork of memoir and reminiscence, poetry, testimony, love letters, and family lore. In this multifaceted, unconventional portrait, Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history, even as the possibilities created by these women live on. Unfolding against a personal view of the settler invasion of the Midwest by men who farmed and logged, fished and hunted and mined, it reveals the true heart and soul of that history: the lives of the women who held together family, home, and community—women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to make a place in the world for the next generation.
Seven Aunts
Author: Staci Lola Drouillard
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452967717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babies—and there were so many—added more trouble but even more love. These are the aunties: Faye, who lived in California, and Lila, who lived just down the street; Doreen, who took on the bullies taunting her “mixed-blood” brothers and sisters; Gloria, who raised six children (no thanks to all of her “stupid husbands”); Betty, who left a marriage of indenture to a misogynistic southerner to find love and acceptance with a Norwegian logger; and Carol and Diane, who broke the warped molds of their own upbringing. From the fabric of these women’s lives, Staci Lola Drouillard stitches a colorful quilt, its brightly patterned pieces as different as her aunties, yet alike in their warmth and spirit and resilience, their persistence in speaking for their generation. Seven Aunts is an inspired patchwork of memoir and reminiscence, poetry, testimony, love letters, and family lore. In this multifaceted, unconventional portrait, Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history, even as the possibilities created by these women live on. Unfolding against a personal view of the settler invasion of the Midwest by men who farmed and logged, fished and hunted and mined, it reveals the true heart and soul of that history: the lives of the women who held together family, home, and community—women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to make a place in the world for the next generation.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452967717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century They were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and Midwestern farm country. They moved again and again, and they fought for each other when men turned mean, when money ran out, when babies—and there were so many—added more trouble but even more love. These are the aunties: Faye, who lived in California, and Lila, who lived just down the street; Doreen, who took on the bullies taunting her “mixed-blood” brothers and sisters; Gloria, who raised six children (no thanks to all of her “stupid husbands”); Betty, who left a marriage of indenture to a misogynistic southerner to find love and acceptance with a Norwegian logger; and Carol and Diane, who broke the warped molds of their own upbringing. From the fabric of these women’s lives, Staci Lola Drouillard stitches a colorful quilt, its brightly patterned pieces as different as her aunties, yet alike in their warmth and spirit and resilience, their persistence in speaking for their generation. Seven Aunts is an inspired patchwork of memoir and reminiscence, poetry, testimony, love letters, and family lore. In this multifaceted, unconventional portrait, Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history, even as the possibilities created by these women live on. Unfolding against a personal view of the settler invasion of the Midwest by men who farmed and logged, fished and hunted and mined, it reveals the true heart and soul of that history: the lives of the women who held together family, home, and community—women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to make a place in the world for the next generation.
Novels By Paul De Kock
Author: Paul de Kock
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752330805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Novels By Paul De Kock by Paul de Kock
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752330805
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Novels By Paul De Kock by Paul de Kock
Scenes and characters; or, Eighteen months at Beechcroft. Beechcroft. By the author of “Heir of Redclyffe” i.e. Charlotte Mary Yonge , etc
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Cases on Future Interests and Illegal Conditions and Restraints
Author: Albert Martin Kales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Future interests
Languages : en
Pages : 1498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Future interests
Languages : en
Pages : 1498
Book Description
Law Reports Under the Superintendence and Control of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales. Supreme Court of Judicature : Cases Determined in the Chancery Division and in Bankruptcy and Lunacy and on Appeal Therefrom in the Court of Appeal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Equity
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Prisoner of Memory
Author: Denise Hamilton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743492722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Thriller.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743492722
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
Thriller.
Scenes and Characters
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732619516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732619516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Scenes and Characters
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Beechcroft
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Lord Linlithgow
Author: Morley Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description