We Carry Smoke and Paper: Essays on the Grief and Hope of Conversion - Couverture souple

Gee, Melody S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1609389751 ISBN 13 : 9781609389758

Editeur : University of Iowa Press, 2024

Synopsis

Answering an unexpected call to faith in her thirties, Melody Gee contends with what saying "yes" to conversion requires of an adopted daughter of Chinese immigrants. Faced with a new framework for her place in the world, grief and doubt shadow her tentative steps toward becoming a believer. She looks for answers and consolation in her family's story of immigration trauma and cultural assimilation, in the ways their burdens and limitations made her answer-seeking both impossible and inevitable.
In essays that explore the parallels between conversion and language acquisition, isolated liturgies, cultural inheritances, stalled initiations, disrupted storytelling, and adoption, Gee examines conversion's grief and hope, losses and gains, hauntings and promises. We Carry Smoke and Paper is a memoir about what we owe to those who sacrifice everything for us, and it is about the many conversions in a lifetime that turn our heads via whispers and shouts, calling us to ourselves.

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À propos de l'auteur

Melody S. Gee is the author of three books of poetry. Born in Taiwan and raised in California, she now lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Iowa Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1609389751
• ISBN 13: 9781609389758
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
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