Grace lives a fairly normal life with her mother and sister in a peaceful suburban village in the Philippines. Working as a nurse at the local hospital and learning martial arts in her spare time, she carries on with a routine where everything is as good as can be expected. But a sudden grief takes over when her family is compelled to immigrate to the United States on a long-standing petition they all thought would never come. In an instant, Graces childhood fear of death and separation resurface as she considers the possibility that she might never see her family againan anxiety which is aggravated by her mothers poor health and the imminent revelation of a dark secret involving her father. This temporary separation, however, finds comfort in the promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ, whom she learns about from a group of unlikely friends. As human reality dawns, can Grace handle the blow of a cold, hard truth that will inevitably shake the very foundations of her newfound Christian faith?
TWO INTENSE STORIES, WITH POETRY IN FRONT OF EACH CHAPTER. THE FIRST STORY IS; HOW THIS CHILD LOST HER PARENTS AT A YOUNG AGE, THEN BEFREINDED BY HER COUSINS HUSBAND, RAPED FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS UNTIL SHE FINALLY FINDS A WAY OUT THROUGH A FRIEND. POETRY, AND THE SECOND STORY IS; ABOUT A YOUNG GIRL AND HER MOTHER -A JOURNEY TO REMEMBER- AS THEY TRAVEL WITH LITTLE OR NO MONEY FROM CALIFORNIA TO PENNSYLVANIA PRAYING AND RECEIVING GIFTS AND A SAFE PASSAGE WITH GODS HELPING HAND.
Grace lives a fairly normal life with her mother and sister in a peaceful suburban village in the Philippines. Working as a nurse at the local hospital and learning martial arts in her spare time, she carries on with a routine where everything is as good as can be expected. But a sudden grief takes over when her family is compelled to immigrate to the United States on a long-standing petition they all thought would never come. In an instant, Graces childhood fear of death and separation resurface as she considers the possibility that she might never see her family againan anxiety which is aggravated by her mothers poor health and the imminent revelation of a dark secret involving her father. This temporary separation, however, finds comfort in the promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ, whom she learns about from a group of unlikely friends. As human reality dawns, can Grace handle the blow of a cold, hard truth that will inevitably shake the very foundations of her newfound Christian faith?
This selection of the major poems James Joyce published in his lifetime is accompanied by his only surviving play, Exiles. Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also a highly accomplished poet. Chamber Music is his debut collection of lyrical love poems, which he intended to be set to music; in it, he enlivens the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of playful irony. Pomes Penyeach, a collection written while Joyce was working on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, sounds intimately autobiographical notes of passion and betrayal that would go on to resonate throughout the rest of his work. Joyce’s other poems include the moving “Ecce Puer,” written on the occasion of the birth of his grandson, and his fiery satires “The Holy Office” and “Gas from a Burner.” Exiles was written after Joyce had left Ireland, never to return; it is a richly nuanced drama that reflects a grappling with the state of his own marriage and career as he was about to embark on the writing of Ulysses. In its tale of an unconventional couple involved in a love triangle, Exiles engages Joycean themes of envy and jealousy, freedom and love, men and women, and the complicated relationship between an artist and his homeland.
From the author of Bellefleur: A “psychologically incisive” glimpse into the mind of a deranged predator and the boy he abducts to be his son (Booklist). Robbie Whitcomb is five years old when he’s taken from his mother in a mall parking lot. In her attempt to chase the kidnapper, she’s left badly injured and permanently disfigured. Such are the methods of the man who calls himself Daddy Love—a man known to the rest of the world as charismatic preacher Chester Cash. For the next six years, Robbie is to be Daddy’s son. That means doing whatever Daddy says—and giving him whatever he wants. Soon Robbie learns to accept his new name, Gideon. He also learns that he is not the first of Daddy Love’s sons. And that each of the others, after reaching a certain age, was never seen again. As Robbie’s mother recovers from her wounds, her life and marriage are a daily struggle. But as years go by, she maintains a flicker of hope that her son is still alive. Meanwhile, Robbie approaches the “bittersweet age” with no illusions about his fate. But somewhere within this tortured child lies a spark of rebellion. And he knows all too well what survival requires. “After all these years, Joyce Carol Oates can still give me the creeps.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “A lean and disturbing tale that reverberates after its ending.” —The Columbus Dispatch “Oates makes us squirm as she forces us to see some of the action through Love’s twisted and warped perspective.” —Kirkus Reviews “This unsettling tale showcases Oates’s masterful storytelling.” —Publishers Weekly
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