Stories Are What Save Us

Author : David Chrisinger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421440806
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories Are What Save Us written by David Chrisinger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume.

Author : Mark Yaconelli
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506481477
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the Listening and the Telling written by Mark Yaconelli and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Between the Listening and the Telling, Mark Yaconelli leads readers into an enchanting meditation on the power of storytelling. From personal meaning-making to school shootings, climate change, and immigration justice, stories help us connect to out human longings and deep scurrents of hope."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Jenna Blum
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0151010196
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Those who Save Us written by Jenna Blum and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trudy Swenson, haunted by her German heritage, embarks upon a deeper investigation of her past and uncovers secrets her mother has kept hidden for five decades.

Author : Stephanie Powell Watts
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006247300X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No One Is Coming to Save Us written by Stephanie Powell Watts and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *THE INAUGURAL SARAH JESSICA PARKER PICK FOR BOOK CLUB CENTRAL* CHOSEN AS A 2017 BEST SUMMER READ PICK BY The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post • The Seattle Times NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2017 BY Entertainment Weekly • Nylon • Elle • Redbook • W Magazine • The Chicago Review of Books JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he’s startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can’t seem to carry one to term. Her husband, Henry, has grown distant, frustrated by the demise of the furniture industry, which has outsourced to China and stripped the area of jobs. Ava’s mother, Sylvia, caters to and meddles with the lives of those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. And Don, Sylvia’s unworthy but charming husband, just won’t stop hanging around. JJ’s return—and his plans to build a huge mansion overlooking Pinewood and woo Ava—not only unsettles their family, but stirs up the entire town. The ostentatious wealth that JJ has attained forces everyone to consider the cards they’ve been dealt, what more they want and deserve, and how they might go about getting it. Can they reorient their lives to align with their wishes rather than their current realities? Or are they all already resigned to the rhythms of the particular lives they lead? No One Is Coming to Save Us is a revelatory debut from an insightful voice: with echoes of The Great Gatsby it is an arresting and powerful novel about an extended African American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream. In evocative prose, Stephanie Powell Watts has crafted a full and stunning portrait that combines a universally resonant story with an intimate glimpse into the hearts of one family.

Author : Scott Holland
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042917866
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Do Stories Save Us? written by Scott Holland and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postmodern turn in theology reminds us that religion is imaginative before it becomes prosaic or propositional. Theologians are now joining literary critics, novelists and poets in asking the question, "How Do Stories Save Us?" Claiming that the truth of religion, like the truth of its nearest analogue, art, is primordially a truth of manifestation, this book explores the question in constructive conversation with the hermeneutics of David Tracy. With Tracy's analogical imagination as a guide, Scott Holland takes the reader on an intellectual adventure through narrative theology, literary criticism, poetics, ritual studies and aesthetics in the composition of a theology of culture.

Author : Nina Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578209111
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scars That Save Us written by Nina Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina is a young Latin girl, raised by a single mother who doesn't bother with her daughters life or the traumatic events she experiences, who grows up in a run down area that exposes her to all of the harsh conditions that plague so many poverty-stricken youth, and the only way she thinks she can escape it is by growing up as fast as she can...which means getting married before she finishes high school, having kids before she gets old enough to drink, and making her way through a succession of men who all put her through hell in their own way...despite all of the cruel obstacles she gets thrown at, Nina never stops fighting to have a better life...to find happiness in an increasingly pessimistic world...and to experience actual love, in a life that mostly offers the illusion of it...

Author : David Chrisinger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421440814
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories Are What Save Us written by David Chrisinger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seasoned writer and teacher of memoir explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way. Since 2013, David Chrisinger has taught military veterans, their families, and other trauma survivors how to make sense of and recount their stories of loss and transformation. The lessons he imparts can be used by anyone who has ever experienced trauma, particularly people with a deep need to share that experience in a way that leads to connection and understanding. In Stories Are What Save Us, Chrisinger shows—through writing exercises, memoir excerpts, and lessons he's learned from his students—the most efficient ways to uncover and effectively communicate what you've learned while fighting your life's battles, whatever they may be. Chrisinger explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way. Weaving together his journey as a writer, editor, and teacher, he reveals his own deeply personal story of family trauma and abuse and explains how his life has informed his writing. Part craft guide, part memoir, and part teacher's handbook, Stories Are What Save Us presents readers with a wide range of craft tools and storytelling structures that Chrisinger and his students have used to process conflict in their own lives, creating beautiful stories of growth and transformation. Throughout, this profoundly moving, laser-focused book exemplifies the very lessons it strives to teach. A foreword by former soldier and memoirist Brian Turner, author of My Life as a Foreign Country, and an afterword by military wife and memoirist Angela Ricketts, author of No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife, bookend the volume.

Author : Matt Tullis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820366781
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories Can Save Us written by Matt Tullis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2024-06-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great journalism relies on a narrative arc to engage and inform the reader. Stories Can Save Us looks at how the best reporters and writers craft narrative literary journalism. Journalist Matt Tullis uses the material he gathered in the more than seventy-five interviews he conducted with the best narrative and literary journalists in the country through his podcast, Gangrey: The Podcast, to show how these professionals conceive and writesuch compelling stories. Through his podcast, Tullis interviewed Pulitzer Prizewinners, National Magazine Awardwinners, and many authors of books of narrative journalism, including New York Times best-selling authors. He also spoke with reporters of different races and backgrounds, styles and strengths—journalists who have been published in the most prestigious newspapers and magazines—to ask: How do they find story ideas? How do they reach out to potential story subjects? What are their interviewstrategies? How do they conduct other information gathering? How do they come up with their amazing and enticing leads? How do they develop story structure? How does the story change in the revision process? How do they make their stories great and make them into the types of stories that people read and talk about for years? Through Tullis’s conversations with these top-tier journalists, we are offered a window into their methods and practices as well as the motivations behind great journalism and how it speaks to the cultural climate of its time. Tullis’s goal was to expand the power and potential of what amazing reporting and narrative writing can do, believing that it can literally change a reader’s mood and, possibly, a reader’s life.

Author : Michael T. McRay
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1513805959
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Not Your Enemy written by Michael T. McRay and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you my enemy? Am I yours? Violent stories surround us. Brutal beginnings, horror-filled middles, despair-inducing endings. We need better stories: stories forged in the furnace of conflict, narratives that kindle compassion and ignite hope. In the pages of I Am Not Your Enemy, writer Michael T. McRay visits divided regions of the world and interviews activists, peacebuilders, former combatants about their personal stories of conflict, justice, and reconciliation. In Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, and South Africa, he hears from grieving parents who partner together across enemy lines, a woman who meets her father’s killer, and a man who uses theater to counter the oppression of his people, and many more. In a time of heightened alienation and fear, McRay offers true, sacred stories of reconciliation and justice, asking what they can teach us about our own divided states. Must violence be met with violence? Is my belonging complete only when I take away yours? Will more guns, more walls, more weapons keep us safe? We need stories that cultivate empathy and tell the truth. We need stories to save us from our fear.

Author : Patrick A. Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617036781
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Tim O'Brien written by Patrick A. Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried