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Solito
- A Memoir
- De: Javier Zamora
- Narrado por: Javier Zamora
- Duración: 17 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 3,196
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,960
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,955
Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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MASTERPIECE of Poetic Prose, Outstanding Narration
- De Mary Burnight en 01-12-23
- Solito
- A Memoir
- De: Javier Zamora
- Narrado por: Javier Zamora
Breathtakingly vulnerable
Revisado: 05-24-23
My college students, many of them immigrants and children of immigrants, and I listened to Solito this semester. We were completely taken on Javier’s boyhood journey from El Salvador to La USA. My students particularly liked how Zamora used Spanish throughout the story. We highly recommend it!!
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Memorial Drive
- A Daughter's Memoir
- De: Natasha Trethewey
- Narrado por: Natasha Trethewey
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,622
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,430
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,419
At age 19, Natasha Trethewey had her world turned upside down when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. Grieving and still new to adulthood, she confronted the twin pulls of life and death in the aftermath of unimaginable trauma and now explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. With penetrating insight and a searing voice that moves from the wrenching to the elegiac, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief.
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5 out of 5 stars
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poetic
- De Amazon Customer en 08-03-20
- Memorial Drive
- A Daughter's Memoir
- De: Natasha Trethewey
- Narrado por: Natasha Trethewey
Stunning memoir!
Revisado: 08-08-21
This is a powerful account of a daughter trying to understand the circumstances of her mother’s death. Through poetic prose she uncovers her mother’s struggles in an abusive relationship that leads to the unthinkable. Trethewey also pulls to the surface how often women facing domestic abuse can’t find the protection they need. I’ll keep thinking about this story for long time.
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Captive
- A Poetry Collection on OCD, Psychosis, and Brain Inflammation (A Memoir of One Woman's Battle with PANS and Encephalitis)
- De: Madeline Dyer
- Narrado por: Shelley Salter
- Duración: 53 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
Captive, Madeline Dyer's first poetry collection, is based on the therapy writings she produced when she was experiencing psychosis and OCD due to autoimmune basal ganglia encephalitis, a rare type of brain inflammation caused by the immune system attacking the brain. While her communication skills and cognitive abilities diminished due to the effects of the inflammation, she was able to share her thoughts and emotions via the written word
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Woman's Stunning Journey
- De r.g. vasicek en 02-24-21
- Captive
- A Poetry Collection on OCD, Psychosis, and Brain Inflammation (A Memoir of One Woman's Battle with PANS and Encephalitis)
- De: Madeline Dyer
- Narrado por: Shelley Salter
One Woman's Stunning Journey
Revisado: 02-24-21
Madeline Dyer beckons the listener into her journey through medical crisis in this stunning collection. With vulnerability and precision, the conversation between the rational mind and the "Monster" mind soars and runs amok. Dyers takes us on a search for answers within hospitals and within herself. I admired the way this poet looked closely at what is real and what is illusion as she seeks help, often running into those who don't recognize the realness of what is happening to her. The intimacy of Shelley Salter's voice made me feel as if I was in the experience with the author. Powerful collection! I couldn't stop listening.
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Mother Tongue
- A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
- De: Tania Romanov
- Narrado por: Becky Parker
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov's story of exile, emigration, and immigration and how native language can be a powerful touchstone for the sense of home. The unrelenting consequences of 100 years of Balkan wars force three generations of Croatian women to flee their homelands multiple times. Eventually, Tania, a successfully integrated American immigrant from Eastern Europe, journeys back to her fractured homeland with her mother to unravel the secrets of their shared past.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Ljiljana Popovic, born in former Yugoslavia
- De Ljiljana Popovic en 03-18-21
- Mother Tongue
- A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women
- De: Tania Romanov
- Narrado por: Becky Parker
Intergenerational story of Mothers and Daughters
Revisado: 01-06-21
I was drawn to this memoir because I also have a Croatian mother and have explored her history.
Instantly, Tania Romanov drew me into her inter-generational memoir a complicated history of her family that spans wars, Istria, occupations, Italy, the former Yugoslavia, Croatia, and America. It taught me so much! I laughed, and cried, and grew very attached to her mother, and grandmother as they continued to improvise lives as best as they could. I especially appreciated the way Romanov unravels the complexity of a multi-ethnic identity. This book kept me company through part of the pandemic and I was sad when it ended.
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