Ordinarily, flotsam is soon lost to human memory. Objects like these have been falling into the sea and washing up on the shores since the dawn of navigation - for billions of years longer, if you count driftwood, volcanic pumice and all the other natural materials that float upon the waves. Seventeen years and many thousands of shoes, bath toys, hockey gloves, human corpses, ancient treasures and other floating objects later, I’m still looking. “Isn’t this the sort of thing you study?” she asked, assuming as ever that her son the oceanographer knew everything about the sea. The details as to how they’d gotten there were sketchy, verging on nonexistent, and that piqued my mother’s curiosity. A lively market had developed beach dwellers held swap meets to assemble matching pairs of the remarkably wearable shoes, laundered and bleached to remove the sea’s traces. It reported a strange phenomenon: Hundreds of Nike sneakers, brand-new save for some seaweed and barnacles, were washing up along the Pacific coasts of British Columbia, Washington and, especially, Oregon, Nike’s home state. My mother, who loved serving as my personal clipping service, had extracted a wire story from the local paper. One year later, in early June 1991, I stopped by my parents’ house in Seattle, as I did every week or two for lunch and the latest news.
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These characteristics are things that I think many teenagers, of any era, can relate to. Marie-Laure has a never-ending curiosity and Werner is constantly questioning the morals he is presented by his society. I found both of the main characters very relate-able, despite their story taking place decades ago. Each of the characters must learn to interpret their own experience whether that is Marie-Laure memorizing her way around her city or Werner in his military service. I thoroughly enjoyed the way the author used different points of view to show many sides of one story. I took her recommendation eagerly, as I love studying history. This novel was recommended to me by my grandmother. They come of age through the war, and learn to navigate their war-torn world. Both of the main characters learn to accept and cope with war in their own unique ways. As war draws near, Marie-Laure and her father move to the French coast to try to avoid the war while Werner is pressed into service in the German army. Werner Pfennig lives in a coal mining town in Germany. Marie-Laure LeBlanc is blind, and lives with her father in France. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is the story of two teenagers living during World War Two. To round out the worldview we have Neville and Nan's mother, who also celebrates a birthday - her sixty-third - in the course of the story. Alongside Neville and Nan we see glimpses of Neville's daughter Gerda (and her son Kay) who are at University and deep in strong philosophical and political stances that they feel they absolutely must cling to at all costs, in the way that young people often do. The book also follows her younger, and less conventional sister, Nan, who is toying with the idea of marriage and refusing to conform to expectations. Beginning with Neville, who is the middle generation, as she celebrates her forty-third birthday and muses on what she has achieved with her life so far and her expectations versus the reality. The novel is quite domestic in tone, focusing on the lives of three generations of women in a family, and the way that societal expectations of a woman's role play into each of their lives depending on the generation that they belong to. This is not his plea for forgiveness, nor his denial of guilt it is the story of an ordeal that no one would wish on their worst enemy. Fellows was certainly guilty of his crime, but he endured and survived human-rights abuses beyond imagination. Read more deo - solitary confinement, Thai style. The Damage Done is his story of an unthinkable nightmare in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, and where the worst punishment is the khun. In 1978, Warren Fellows was convicted in Thailand of heroin trafficking and was sentenced to life imprisonment. No imagine 4,000 of those days in one big chunk. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it. Think about the most wretched day of your life. BIC Classification: 1FMT 3JJPL 3JJPN BTC. This is the story of his 12 years behind bars, the abuse of human rights and the squalid conditions he endured. In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia and was consequently sentenced to life in Bang Kwang prison - known as the Bangkok Hilton. Description for The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison Paperback. Please contact Mary at is originally from Onley, Va and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. Please contact Carrie at film and television, Vashti is represented by Mary Pender at UTA. Find out moreįor publishing Vashti is represented by Carrie Hannigan at HG Literary. Told from Zuris point of view as she gets ready for a 'big day,' Zuris dad consults online. They have shown around the world at film festivals and venues including the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival. Hair Love is the tender story of one dads attempt to style his daughter Zuris curly hair. Her Experimental films and videos focus on her Caribbean Heritage and folklore. Vashti received her BA from the University of Virginia and her MFA in Film and Video from Calarts. She received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for Lupita Nyong’o’s Sulwe and is also a two-time recipient of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for Children. 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This view has always been wrong, but only over the last few decades have we acquired the scientific evidence to prove what many animal specialists have long suspected: Most animals are intelligent, emotional, and deeply social creatures. One of our most misguided and longstanding myths is the notion that humanity’s mental faculties should be considered qualitatively different from those of nonhuman animals. If humans want to survive and flourish in the Anthropocene, we will need to overcome the habits of thought that have wrought destruction on our collective psyche and the natural world. She was looking for the anchor for yourself that she gave "Heidi" back then and that she still gives to many others. Hence most of her books bore the subtitle, "A story for children and also for those who love children". But it is still apparent that in her texts Spyri often showed her empathy with the fate of young women, and especially with the fate of children. Putting herself first was far from her mind. On the side of the children It is now hard to know exactly how much of the story is really autobiographical and took place in Johanna Spyri’s life because shortly before her death the author burnt all her diaries and most of her letters. In this book, she is firmly on the side of the children - at that time, a pioneering achievement in children's literature. Her life story reminds some people of her most successful fictional character, "Heidi". She grew up in the countryside, lived in the city, and then fled into the mountains. Johanna Spyri is, without doubt, the best-known Swiss author ever. The authors/illustrators accomplish their goal without seeming too preachy. The characters are well drawn and realistic. The story builds up evenly, so that readers will want to continue and find out what happens next. The flashbacks alternate well with the present-day narrative. There’s no telling from the story how closely it mirrors the lives of the authors-the book isn’t categorized as a memoir-but it obviously hits close to home. They felt ashamed of it, so they wrote this story so that children would know that they did not have to be ashamed. At the end of their story, the Holm siblings write a note explaining that when they were growing up, they had a relative who was abusing drugs or alcohol. He tells her not to tell, and she keeps the secret, but she doesn’t feel good about it.Įventually, we learn why Sunny was packed off to stay with her grandfather, and Sunny is able to share things with her grandfather to help her get through this difficult time. Sunny remembers different instances in which she was a witness to her brother’s drunkenness and his drug use. Readers learn that Sunny’s older brother has been drinking and doing drugs. Sunny’s stay in Florida is interspersed with flashbacks. He introduces Sunny to a whole number of comics. They scavenge for lost golf balls and search for lost cats all these things earn them money to buy comics. Buzz is the son of the maintenance worker, and Buzz knows how to make things fun. She then meets the only other kid in the complex. At one point, the pronghorn was in danger of extinction and they are still considered threatened or endangered. Numbers of pronghorn declined from approximately 30-60 million in the early 1800’s to less than 15,000 by 1915. Pronghorn, like the American Bison, were once plentiful in the American West, ranging all the way from Canada to Mexico. However, like deer and elk (and unlike cattle and goats), pronghorn shed their horns every year. Pronghorn have branched, hollow, horns made from hair like cattle and goats, whereas deer and elk have branched, solid antlers. Unlike deer, pronghorn are diurnal (active during the daytime) and do not like to jump over fences, preferring instead to duck under a fence if they want to cross one. Like deer, pronghorns are even-toed ungulates (cloven hooved) mammals that eat grass, live in herds, and can run fast. (In fact, the pronghorn antelope is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the “Fastest Mammal on Land Over Long Distances.”) Locally referred to as “antelope,” the pronghorn ( Antilocapra americana), which lives in the plains and grasslands of North America, is often seen in the wide open spaces of Wyoming and is frequently observed by sightseeing tour visitors to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. |