Dearest Sparrow: & Other Stories of Altered Lives (Paperback)

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Dearest Sparrow: & Other Stories of Altered Lives (Paperback)

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Joanne Johnston Francis rarely thinks of herself as a writer, rather as a person in search of the meaning of "home". Unlike her character Sparrow, whose constant uprooting leaves her uncertain as to where home is, regular uprooting over a lifetime has left this author believing almost anywhere is home. In finding her "way into" very different lives, she sees the challenge as a matter of growing accustomed to the local rhythm of a day's work, whether hanging burley leaves to cure in a Blue Ridge Mountain tobacco barn, carving a Salish journey canoe from western red cedar using adze and crooked knife, or learning how to rhyme couplets from her eighth-grade students in Harlem, before rap. On display here in this memorable collection are lives lived off the beaten track. The author begins with the premise that no one person is average and no single culture wholly unique. Her stories celebrate our small individual moments of courage and the fact that those moments of courage are more common than we think.
Product Details ISBN: 9781974645893
ISBN-10: 1974645894
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: September 14th, 2017
Pages: 252
Language: English