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Oleander girl
Enjoying a sheltered childhood with adoring grandparents but troubled by the silence surrounding her parents' deaths, 17-year-old Korobi is prompted by a love note among her mother's possessions and a fiance's shattering revelation to travel from India to post-September 11 America in search of her true identity.
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Chasing Ghosts: A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War
Chasing Ghosts is a gripping narrative about a daughter's quest to achieve reconciliation with her father during the last years of his life when he finally broke his silence about his military experience before and during World War II. When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years or that it would yield more revelations about the man--and herself--and the effect of his military service upon their family than she'd ever imagined. During his last years, as he told her about his life, DeSalvo began to understand that her obsession with war novels and military history wasn't merely academic but rooted in her desire to understand this complex father whom she both adored and reviled because of his mistreatment of her. Although she at first believes she wants to uncover his story, the story of a man who was no hero and who was adversely affected by his military service, she learns that what she really wants is to recover the man he was before he went away. As DeSalvo and her father uncover his past piece by piece, bit by bit, she learns about the dreams of a working-class man who entered the military in the late 1930s during peacetime to better himself, a man who wanted to become a pilot. She learns about what it was like for him to participate in war games in the Pacific prior to the war, and the war's devastating toll. She learns about what it was like for her parents to fall in love, set up house, marry, and have children during this cataclysmic time. And as the pieces of her father's life fall into place as DeSalvo works to piece together the puzzle of everything she's learned about this time, she finds herself finally able to understand him. Chasing Ghosts is an original contribution to the understanding of workingclass World War II veterans who did not conventionally distinguish themselves through \"heroic\" actions and whose lives were not until recently considered worthy of historical or cultural attention. It personalizes the history of those sailors who served in the Navy aboard aircraft carriers and on islands in the Pacific prior to and during World War II and contributes to the current vital conversation about the often-unrecognized effects of war and its traumas upon those men and their families. It reveals the lifelong devastating consequences of military service on those men and women who fell in love, married, and set up house. And it reveals the complexity of what it is like to be the daughter of a father who has gone to war.
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Here we are : American dreams, American nightmares
\"Follows the lives of [NPR correspondent] Aarti, the precocious scholarship kid at one of Manhattan's most elite prep schools, and her dad, the shopkeeper who mistakenly sells watches and calculators to the notorious Cali drug cartel. Together, the two represent the extremes that coexist in our country--even within a single family--and a truth about immigrants that gets lost in the headlines. It isn't a matter of good or evil--it's complicated\"--Dust jacket flap.
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Full Fathom Five
One woman’s quest for knowledge of her father lost
at sea Mary Lee Coe Fowler was a posthumous child, born
after her father, a submarine skipper in the Pacific, was lost at
sea in 1943. Her mother quickly remarried into a difficult and
troubled relationship, and Mary Lee’s biological father was
never mentioned. It was not until her mother died and Mary Lee
was a middle-aged adult that she set out to learn not only who
her father was, but what happened to him and his crew, and
why—and also to confront why she had shied away from asking
these questions until it was nearly too late. Fowler searched
through old ships’ logs, letters, and naval
communiqués; visited submarine museums, the Naval Academy,
and other pertinent sites; interviewed old friends and crew
members who knew her dad and mom or served concurrently; and
slowly reconstructed the world in which they lived. Beautifully
written, Fowler’s memoir reveals what she eventually
learned: of the perils and harships of submarine service in
wartime, of the tragic irony of how her father’s sub was
probably lost, and of the long-term damage experienced by the
families of those who do not come home from war.
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A map of betrayal
A tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries, China and the United States, and two families, as it explores the complicated terrain of love and honor. When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary after the death of her parents, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, Gary, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary, a chronicle of his journey from Shanghai to Okinawa to Langley, Virginia, reveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed. The trail leads Lilian to China, to her father's long-abandoned other family, whose existence she and her Irish-American mother never suspected. As Lilian begins to fathom her father's dilemma, torn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted country, she sees how his sense of duty distorted his life. As she starts to understand that her father, too, had been betrayed, she finds that it is up to her to prevent his tragedy from damaging yet another generation of her family.
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The War Came Home with Him
During his years as a POW in North Korea, \"Doc\" Boysen endured hardships he never intended to pass along, especially to his family. Men who refused to eat starved; his children would clean their plates. Men who were weak died; his children would develop character. They would also learn to fear their father, the hero. In a memoir at once harrowing and painfully poignant, Catherine Madison tells the stories of two survivors of one man's war: a father who withstood a prison camp's unspeakable inhumanity and a daughter who withstood the residual cruelty that came home with him.
Doc Boysen died fifty years after his ordeal, his POW experience concealed to the end in a hidden cache of documents. InThe War Came Home with Him, Madison pieces together the horrible tale these papers told-of a young captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps captured in July 1950, beaten and forced to march without shoes or coat on icy trails through mountains to camps where North Korean and Chinese captors held him for more than three years. As the truth about her father's past unfolds, Madison returns to a childhood troubled by his secret torment to consider, in a new light, the telling moments in their complex relationship.
Beginning at her father's deathbed, with all her questions still unspoken, and ending with their final conversation, Madison's dual memoir offers a powerful, intimate perspective on the suppressed grief and thwarted love that forever alter a family when a wounded soldier brings his war home.
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Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
\"The eldest daughter of revered composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein offers a rare look at her father on the centennial of his birth\"--Dust jacket flap.
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In search of mockingbird
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.
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