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Sweet Sorrow
- A Beginner's Guide to Death
- Narrado por: Grant Cartwright
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
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Resumen del Editor
Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious: death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents' deaths. Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences: our own mortality.
With Mark as our guide, we are introduced to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers. He reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in a heartfelt and whimsical investigation into this timeless subject. All you need to pack for the trip is a curiosity about life.
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A very important book.
- De Tyler en 12-07-19
De: Edwidge Danticat
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
- A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
- De: Sallie Tisdale
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 154
You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- De Alyssa en 09-09-19
De: Sallie Tisdale
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Knocking on Heaven's Door
- The Path to a Better Way of Death
- De: Katy Butler
- Narrado por: Katy Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 142
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Like so many of us, award-winning writer Katy Butler always assumed her aging parents would experience healthy, active retirements before dying peacefully at home. Then her father suffered a stroke that left him incapable of easily finishing a sentence or showering without assistance. Her mother was thrust into full-time caregiving, and Katy became one of the 24 million Americans who help care for aging parents. In an effort to correct a minor and non - life threatening heart arrhythmia, doctors outfitted her father with a pacemaker.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A better way to narrate a book about death?
- De MAUREEN en 10-21-13
De: Katy Butler
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Beyond Tears
- Living After Losing a Child, Revised Edition
- De: Carol Barkin, Barbara J. Goldstein, Audrey Cohen, y otros
- Narrado por: Pam Ward
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
The death of a child is that unimaginable loss no parent ever expects to face. In Beyond Tears, nine mothers share their individual stories of how to survive in the darkest hour. They candidly share with other bereaved parents what to expect in the first year and long beyond.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Comforting and familiar
- De Jeanne en 01-12-17
De: Carol Barkin, y otros
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Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- De: Leigh Sales
- Narrado por: Leigh Sales
- Duración: 6 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and Timely
- De Elizabeth B en 10-06-18
De: Leigh Sales
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Survivor Cafe
- The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
- De: Elizabeth Rosner
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Rosner
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 37
Beyond preserving the firsthand testimonies of participants and witnesses, individuals and societies must continually take responsibility for learning the painful lessons of the past in order to offer hope for the future. Survivor Café offers a clear-eyed sense of the enormity of our 21st-century human inheritance - not only among direct descendants of the Holocaust, but also in the shape of our collective responsibility to learn from tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A book every generation should read
- De J. Faught en 09-29-17
De: Elizabeth Rosner
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Create Dangerously
- The Immigrant Artist at Work
- De: Edwidge Danticat
- Narrado por: Kristin Kalbli
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In this deeply personal book, the celebrated Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile. Inspired by Albert Camus and adapted from her own lectures for Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Lecture Series, here Danticat tells stories of artists who create despite (or because of) the horrors that drove them from their homelands. Combining memoir and essay, these moving and eloquent pieces examine what it means to be an artist from a country in crisis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very important book.
- De Tyler en 12-07-19
De: Edwidge Danticat
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Native Country of the Heart
- A Memoir
- De: Cherríe Moraga
- Narrado por: Cherríe Moraga
- Duración: 7 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 52
Native Country of the Heart is the writer and activist Cherrie Moraga's love letter to her "unlettered" mother. It begins with her mother, Elvira Isabel Moraga, who as a child, along with her siblings, was hired out by her own father to pick cotton in California's Imperial Valley. The lives of Cherrie and her mother, and of their people, are woven together in a story of critical reflection and deep personal revelation as Moraga charts her own coming to consciousness alongside the heartbreaking story of her mother's decline.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a must read for all chicanx
- De Rachel Barnett en 04-28-19
De: Cherríe Moraga
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The Good Death
- An Exploration of Dying in America
- De: Ann Neumann
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 147
Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann's father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver - cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, she was undone by the experience, by grief and the visceral quality of dying.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ugh, so boring
- De Maranto en 05-13-19
De: Ann Neumann
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American Ghost
- A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
- De: Hannah Nordhaus
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 150
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 129
The dark-eyed woman in the long, black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A true American tale
- De Cleo Colorado en 05-29-15
De: Hannah Nordhaus
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Modern Loss
- Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
- De: Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner
- Narrado por: Meredith Mitchell, Josh Bloomberg
- Duración: 7 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it's clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let's face it: Most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We're awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Was Expecting
- De Bessie Mae en 03-01-23
De: Rebecca Soffer, y otros
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Changing the Way We Die
- Compassionate End-of-Life Care and the Hospice Movement
- De: Sheila Himmel, Fran Smith
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care - nearly 44 percent of all deaths - and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Sadly, not very engaging.
- De Debra S. Long en 06-16-18
De: Sheila Himmel, y otros
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Ghostbelly
- De: Elizabeth Heineman
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal account of a home birth that goes tragically wrong—ending in a stillbirth—and the harrowing process of grief and questioning that follows. It’s also Heineman’s unexpected tale of the loss of a newborn: before burial, she brings the baby home for overnight stays.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Healing
- De ngsquared en 04-17-23
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 124
Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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The Chick and the Dead
- Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
- De: Carla Valentine
- Narrado por: Beverley A. Crick
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Using the most common postmortem process as the backbone of the narrative, The Chick and the Dead takes the listener through the process of an autopsy while also describing the history and changing cultures of our relationship with the dead. The book is full of vivid insight into what happens to our bodies in the end. Each chapter considers an aspect of an autopsy alongside an aspect of Carla's own life and work and touches on some of the more controversial aspects of our feelings toward death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dull
- De Leah en 08-19-17
De: Carla Valentine
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Appointments with Heaven
- The True Story of a Country Doctor's Healing Encounters with the Hereafter
- De: Dr. Reggie Anderson, Jennifer Schuchmann
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove
- Duración: 9 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 835
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 745
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 739
When a patient first asked Dr. Reggie Anderson to sit at her bedside as she passed from this life, something miraculous happened. As he held her hand, the veil between this world and the next parted…and he received an astonishing glimpse of what awaits us in heaven. Little did he know this was just a foretaste of what was to come - a lifetime of God-given "appointments with heaven." Join Reggie as he shares remarkable stories from his life and practice, including the personal tragedy that nearly drove him away from faith forever.
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2 out of 5 stars
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More about Christianity than the Hereafter
- De Karen en 11-25-14
De: Dr. Reggie Anderson, y otros
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The True History of the Elephant Man
- The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
- De: Michael Howell, Peter Ford
- Narrado por: Steve West
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Due to horrible physical deformities, he spent much of his life as a fairground freak. He was hounded, persecuted, and starving, until his fortune changed and he was rescued, housed, and fed by the distinguished surgeon, Frederick Treves. The subject of several books, a Broadway hit, and a film, Joseph Merrick has become part of popular mythology. Here, in this fully revised edition containing much fresh information, are the true and un-romanticized facts of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing man!
- De Carolyn en 02-05-15
De: Michael Howell, y otros
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The Fire This Time
- A New Generation Speaks About Race
- De: Jesmyn Ward
- Narrado por: Cherise Boothe, Michael Early, Kevin R. Free, y otros
- Duración: 5 h y 36 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 241
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 202
National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping-off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Delusion shattering
- De Matthew A. Burnett en 06-12-20
De: Jesmyn Ward
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White like Her
- De: Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 497
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 496
In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother's fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother's racial lineage, tracing her family back to 18th-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De Yoli en 06-06-18
De: Gail Lukasik PhD, y otros