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How does a young woman's life unfold when she walks in on her husband not once, but twice, in bed with other women? While Emma Aspen White wants to have a meaningful life and career, she has long known that her collegiate aspiration is a Mrs. Degree. She believes that she has achieved that with her first love, Dr. Marc White. However, when that marriage ends, Emma's journey over the next forty-some years, provides plenty of drama. Born in 1955...

The four-month-old baby at the end of Rebecca Mark's first novel, A Calm Round of Hours, is all grown up, living in Chicago, working as an emergency room doctor at Northwestern, and trying to find the love of his life.It's the Monday after Easter in 2014, and this new novel's first-person narrator, Dr. Peter Byron White, has just turned thirty-three. Stopping after work one night in a Lincoln Park bar, he hopes to meet a woman he can take home...

It's December 29, 1977, and recent college grad Sara Keatson is spending a few days at her parents' home. With a job teaching art in an elementary school, Sara is seeking career fulfillment and also romance, but the small Iowa town where she is living does not provide many possibilities. Still, the idealistic, creative Sara dreams about finding her Prince Charming, the man who will steal not only her heart but also her virginity. Moreover, sin...

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Thirteen topical surveys present an impressive overview of the plethora of contributions that the southern states have made to American culture.

Chapters present exhaustively researched, detailed narratives of the given subjects, from indigenous culture through the present day. For example, the chapter on "Music" in The Pacific Region explores such styles as indigenous tribal music, Asian-American composition, the Mexican-American "ranchera and "nortena genres, Latin and West Coast jazz, Hawaiian slack key music, surf rock, Haight-Ashbury psychedelia, underground L.A. Metal, Northwest ...

Until the explosion of feminist critical interest in her work, Eudora Welty criticism was dominated by the narrow and singular perspective of her as a "white southern lady” writing first-rate "regional fiction”. Today her work is being closely re-examined for its innovations and artistry. In this revolutionary new way of studying Welty, Rebecca Mark and other contemporary critics have focused on Welty's total engagement with literary modernism.

From the legend of Pocahontas to Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington in homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America's addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation. In Ersatz America, Rebecca Mark shows how this four-hundred-year-old obsession with false history has wounded democracy by creating a language that is severed from material...

From the legend of Pocahontas to Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington in homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America's addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation. In Ersatz America, Rebecca Mark shows how this four-hundred-year-old obsession with false history has wounded democracy by creating a language that is severed from material...