Afterparties

Author : Anthony Veasna So
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063049910
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afterparties written by Anthony Veasna So and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper’s Bazaar * TIME * Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air * Boston Globe* The Atlantic A vibrant story collection about Cambodian-American life—immersive and comic, yet unsparing—that offers profound insight into the intimacy of queer and immigrant communities Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian-Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in California, they shoulder the inherited weight of the Khmer Rouge genocide and grapple with the complexities of race, sexuality, friendship, and family. A high school badminton coach and failing grocery store owner tries to relive his glory days by beating a rising star teenage player. Two drunken brothers attend a wedding afterparty and hatch a plan to expose their shady uncle’s snubbing of the bride and groom. A queer love affair sparks between an older tech entrepreneur trying to launch a “safe space” app and a disillusioned young teacher obsessed with Moby-Dick. And in the sweeping final story, a nine-year-old child learns that his mother survived a racist school shooter. The stories in Afterparties, “powered by So’s skill with the telling detail, are like beams of wry, affectionate light, falling from different directions on a complicated, struggling, beloved American community” (George Saunders).

Author : D. Briggs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113702240X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deviance and Risk on Holiday written by D. Briggs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first attempt to step inside the holiday experience of young British tourists in San Antonio, Ibiza. Briggs' ethnographic study reveals the ugly truth about how and why they get involved in deviance and risk-taking when they go abroad, driven by self validation and a commodified social context.

Author : Sharon Naylor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440513252
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Wedding, Your Way written by Sharon Naylor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding experts agree: Today’s bride and groom want a wedding that reflects who they are—without regard to tradition, convention, or in-laws. This guide shows you how to: Break with tradition—on a budget! Present nontraditional ideas to parents and grandparents Build in time for visiting friends and family Incorporate shared passions into the ceremony Use elbow grease and inventiveness for a DIY wedding Deal with vendors and suppliers You will identify ways you can express your individuality during your wedding celebration, from rehearsal dinner to the morning-after brunch. The memories you take away will be of a ceremony celebrating your love—your uniqueness as a couple.

Author : Dion Georgiou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315404680
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries written by Dion Georgiou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits. Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives spans the bowling greens of early modern England to the postmodern exhibition halls of contemporary Las Vegas, and considers examples from Europe, North America and India. Utilizing a range of historical methods and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre, circus, carnival and film. The collection takes into account the economic, cultural, geographic and political interactions sport has forged and poses a series of questions: about how sport has been forged in contemporary consumer capitalism; about the manner in which it has been shaped by space and place; and the ways in which entrepreneurs, sportspeople and artists have represented sporting competition. The collection will help both students and scholars conceptualise sporting networks, and will be of interest to those working in multiple fields. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in History.

Author : Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027053
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Together, Somehow written by Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Together, Somehow, Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta examines how people find ways to get along and share a dancefloor, a vibe, and a sound. Drawing on time spent in the minimal techno and house music subscenes in Chicago, Paris, and Berlin as the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, Garcia-Mispireta explains this bonding in terms of what he calls stranger-intimacy: the kind of warmth, sharing, and vulnerability between people that happens surprisingly often at popular electronic dance music parties. He shows how affect lubricates the connections between music and the dancers. Intense shared senses of sound and touch help support a feeling of belonging to a larger social world. However, as Garcia-Mispireta points out, this sense of belonging can be vague, fluid, and may hide exclusions and injustices. By showing how sharing a dancefloor involves feeling, touch, sound, sexuality, and subculture, Garcia-Mispireta rethinks intimacy and belonging through dancing crowds and the utopian vision of throbbing dancefloors.

Author : Amy Ruttan
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488009821
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tempting Nashville's Celebrity Doc written by Amy Ruttan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enticing reunion… Renowned neurosurgeon Vivian Maguire knows everything there is to know about the human brain. But when she returns to Nashville—and the man she left behind seven years ago—it's her heart that suddenly occupies her every thought. Dr. Reece Castle has made a name for himself as a premier neurosurgeon to the stars, yet Vivian's return brings him crashing back to reality. Because every glance and unwitting touch tempts him to risk his heart for another chance with the one that got away…

Author : Suzel A. Reily
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317417887
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking written by Suzel A. Reily and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how, cross-culturally, musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it, that is, how people engage with ideas of community and place through music. The term "musicking" has gained currency in music studies, and refers to the diverse ways in which people engage with music, regardless of the nature of this engagement. By linking musicking to the local, this book highlights the ways in which musical practices and discourses interact with people’s everyday experiences and understandings of their immediate environment, their connections and commitment to that locality, and the people who exist within it. It explores what makes local musicking "local." By viewing musicking from the perspective of where it takes place, the contributions in this collection engage with debates on the processes of musicking, identity construction, community-building and network formation, competitions and rivalries, place and space making, and local-global dynamics.

Author : Anne Thomas Soffee
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556526474
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City written by Anne Thomas Soffee and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail--a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people's prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She struggles with not being thin enough, pretty enough, or cool enough when, in the midst of the L.A. riots, Soffee is offered a coveted slot in Virginia Commonwealth University's MFA writing program. Determined to pull herself out of current habits, Soffee starts turning her life around, making a stop at rehab before she heads off to graduate school. Her quarter-life crisis is packed with offbeat characters that prove that fact is often funnier than fiction.

Author : Innovative Language Learning
Publisher : Innovative Language Learning
ISBN 13 : 1641672242
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learn Norwegian: Must-Know Norwegian Slang Words & Phrases written by Innovative Language Learning and published by Innovative Language Learning. This book was released on with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to learn Norwegian the fast, fun and easy way? And do you want to master daily conversations and speak like a native? Then this is the book for you. Learn Norwegian: Must-Know Norwegian Slang Words & Phrases by NorwegianClass101 is designed for Beginner-level learners. You learn the top 100 must-know slang words and phrases that are used in everyday speech. All were hand-picked by our team of Norwegian teachers and experts. Here’s how the lessons work: • Every Lesson is Based on a Theme • You Learn Slang Words or Phrases Related to That Theme • Check the Translation & Explanation on How to Use Each One And by the end, you will have mastered 100+ Norwegian Slang Words & phrases!

Author : Dora Campbell
Publisher : Dora Campbell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elsie and the Lynx written by Dora Campbell and published by Dora Campbell. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words come easily to Jersey City girl Elsie Farrell: she won a scholarship to study English at Britain’s Manchester University. But she isn’t sure she can read men although it’s 1973 and she wants to be a liberated woman. So when Alec Wilder, a charming rock guitarist, chats her up at the pub, Elsie assumes his intentions are dishonorable. Still, Elsie can’t ignore Alec’s crooked smile or the way he makes her feel. Despite her misgivings, Elsie dodges her puritanical landlady to go out with Alec. In a journey that takes them from academic symposia to lavish parties, from swanky hotels to humble cottages, Elsie gets to know the man behind the riffs. But when Alec’s band goes on tour, Elsie wonders if his womanizing past is really behind him. Elsie’s always been better at research than confrontation, but she must decide whether she can confront Alec about the rumors she’s heard. Then she must ask herself if loving a rock star is worth the heartbreak.