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When Faith Adiele realizes that she's forgotten the sound of her late grandmother's voice, she impulsively decides to make a film. The process reveals surprises like her mummi had a thick Finnish accent and blamed her terminal cancer on "all the things I never said, moving inside me." Set against the backdrop of the Watergate hearings, Her Voice: Hänen Ääensä A Hybrid Memoir weaves together diary entries, home movies, ichthyology, Nordic and P...

The only Black girl in her immigrant family, Faith Adiele was raised by grandparents who resisted Russian imperialism and embraced American voting rights. With a cast of family members and characters from beloved (or detested) American movies, Voice/Over: A Memoir Breakout in 7 Movies asks who gets to become American and what does it take to be a hero?

Reluctantly leaving behind Pop Tarts and pop culture to battle flying rats, hissing cobras, forest fires, and decomposing corpses, Faith Adiele shows readers in this personal narrative, with accompanying journal entries, that the path to faith is full of conflicts for even the most devout. Residing in a forest temple, she endured nineteen-hour daily meditations, living on a single daily meal, and days without speaking. Internally Adiele battle...

Twenty-four stories by renowned international authors chronicle the modern struggle for identity among young people around the globe. Editors Adiele and Frosch make a strong case for the importance of sharing stories as they consider whether coming of age is a Western--or universal--concept.

This best-selling, award-winning series presents the finest accounts of women who have traveled to the ends of the earth to discover new places, peoples - and themselves. The common threads connecting the stories are a woman's perspective and lively storytelling to make the reader laugh, cry, wish she were there, or be glad she wasn't. From breaking the gender barrier on a soccer field in Kenya to learning the art of French cooking in a damp c...

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