Immigrants - Friedman, D. Dina
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With sensitivity and wit, Friedman creates a tableau of characters, scenery, sounds, smells, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders. In this compelling collection of stories, we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and doomed relationships between the documented and undocumented; in a squalid encampment by the Rio Grande, where a young mother sends her daughter over the bridge to the U.S. alone; in the heart of multicultural New York, where a Jewish woman seeks a loan from a Muslim bank manager to fund her cancer treatment; and in a New…mehr

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With sensitivity and wit, Friedman creates a tableau of characters, scenery, sounds, smells, and tastes as varied as those who have claimed or seek to claim a home within our borders. In this compelling collection of stories, we find immigrants everywhere: in the poignant and doomed relationships between the documented and undocumented; in a squalid encampment by the Rio Grande, where a young mother sends her daughter over the bridge to the U.S. alone; in the heart of multicultural New York, where a Jewish woman seeks a loan from a Muslim bank manager to fund her cancer treatment; and in a New England home, where bats in the attic are threatening the last vestiges of stability for a divorced and desperate middle-aged woman and her twenty-something Chinese American tenant. These stories explore the deep ambiguities in how we perceive each other. Readers will grow to love Friedman's characters, despite their flaws, as they grapple toward a deeper caring for the world around them.
Autorenporträt
D. Dina Friedman has published in over a hundred literary journals and anthologies (including Rattle, The Sun, Calyx, Lilith, Negative Capability, Chautauqua, Ekphrastic Review, and Rhino) and received four Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of two young adult novels: Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad's Song (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), a short-story collection: Immigrants (Creators Press), and one previous book of poetry: Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press). Originally from New York City, Dina now lives in Western Massachusetts next door to a farm with 600 cows. As a life-long activist, Dina has devoted time to Middle East peace, local land conservation, and immigration justice. In 2019 and 2020 she traveled on two witnessing trips to a child detention center in Homestead, Florida-and to the Brownsville/Matamoros border, where she co-facilitated writing workshops with women and teens. To learn more about Dina, visit www.ddinafriedman.com and subscribe to her blog on living a creative life in a creatively challenged universe at www.ddinafriedman.substack.com