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Our story begins : New and selected stories
Ten potent new stories that, along with twenty-one classics, display Wolff's mastery over a quarter century.
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Raising Henry
Rachel Adams's life had always gone according to plan. She had an adoring husband, a beautiful two-year-old son, a sunny Manhattan apartment, and a position as a tenured professor at Columbia University. Everything changed with the birth of her second child, Henry. Just minutes after he was born, doctors told her that Henry had Down syndrome, and she knew that her life would never be the same.
In this honest, self-critical, and surprisingly funny book, Adams chronicles the first three years of Henry's life and her own transformative experience of unexpectedly becoming the mother of a disabled child. A highly personal story of one family's encounter with disability,Raising Henryis also an insightful exploration of today's knotty terrain of social prejudice, disability policy, genetics, prenatal testing, medical training, and inclusive education. Adams untangles the contradictions of living in a society that is more enlightened and supportive of people with disabilities than ever before, yet is racing to perfect prenatal tests to prevent children like Henry from being born. Her book is gripping, beautifully written, and nearly impossible to put down. Once read, her family's story is impossible to forget.
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Remembering Hagar and Her Son (Gen 21: 9–21): A Narrative Reading of Helpless Victims and Hopeful Survivors in the Wheel of Providence
Narratives are fundamentals of storytelling. In Biblical literature, narratives do not only tell what happened (the context for God’s revelation), they also indicate why what happened matters (the purpose of history). Employing a narrative methodology and a hermeneutic of identification as an interpretive approach, this article explores the Hagar–Ishmael narrative in Genesis 21: 9–21 against the background of those who have been marginalized, exploited, excluded, trafficked, and sitting in a wilderness of despair, struggle, and mistreatment and are in need of survival. The exploration seeks to understand the narrative structure, plot, characters, and themes within the text. The Hagar–Ishmael position is too painfully close to the realities of many today. In this narrative account, one finds a pitiable scene of human suffering and misery, and yet it is bounded by divine mercy and compassion. The stream of helplessness and consequent hope of survival shows that, no matter how mistreated people might have been, they can rise above their “victimization” and embrace the promises of God by staving off defeat, shaking off despair, and vanquishing discouragement. Thus with a hermeneutic of identification, readers are encouraged to identify with the characters, situations, and experiences described in the biblical narrative.
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Der Silberfuchs meiner Mutter : Roman
\"1942 fährt eine Norwegerin nach Vorarlberg. Sie ist schwanger. Eigentlich wollte sie hier ein neues Leben beginnen mit ihrem Verlobten, einem Wehrmachtssoldaten. Doch alles kommt anders. Für sie und für ihren Sohn, Heinz. Schlimmer. Ein brillanter Roman über einen Menschen, der sich nicht brechen lässt. Und die berührende Liebeserklärung eines Sohnes an seine Mutter. Das einzige, was Heinz Fritz mit Gewissheit von seiner Mutter weiß, sind die Stationen ihrer ersten langen Reise: Oslo - Kopenhagen - Berlin - München - Hohenems. Verbürgt ist sie durch ein Schriftstück, das er sein Leben lang bei sich trägt: ein Dokument des SS-Lebensborn. Die Norwegerin hat sich mit dem Feind eingelassen. Und sie hat dem Falschen vertraut. Denn als sie in Österreich ankommt, wird sie nicht willkommen geheissen von der Familie ihres Verlobten, sondern abgewiesen. Zurück kann sie auch nicht, denn in Norwegen gilt sie nun als Kollaborateurin ... In einer grossen, kompromisslosen Selbstbefragung versucht der Erzähler des Romans - ihr Sohn -, die Rätsel seiner Herkunft zu lösen, die Wahrheit über seine Eltern freizulegen. Es ist eine Spurensuche, an deren Ende sich noch einmal alles dreht. Und eine zweite, »hellere« Version der düsteren Geschichte aufscheint\"--Pages 2-4 of cover.
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Love in the Present Tense
A mother shares insight on the positives and negatives of her young adult son's unsuccessful cancer treatment with a view to contributing to improving services for the patient and the family.
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Blazed
When his manic-depressive mother is institutionalized after trying to kill herself, fourteen-year-old Jaime is sent to San Franciso to live with his estranged father, whom Jaime blames for his mother's problems.
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His mother became medicine: drinking problems, ethical transformation and maternal care in central Uganda
Excessive alcohol consumption often appears as an issue of great concern for the friends and family members of drinkers in Uganda, where per capita consumption rates among drinkers are among the highest in the world. In many cases, these families seek care for their loved ones in small shops run by herbalists, in the shrines of spirit mediums, in the pews of churches, or in one of several newly established inpatient rehabilitation centres. Yet, acts of intervention come not only from living family members or friends, but also from an array of spiritual beings who may arrive uninvited and outside intentional therapeutic contexts. In this article, we consider a case in which a mother's spirit intervenes in the life of her son, first by possessing his body and then by continuing to dwell there in ways that make it impossible for him to drink. This case highlights the importance of forces experienced as non-self in life-transforming processes, and demands that we give attention to a moment in a person's life when the work of care is achieved through an act of physical force. Une consommation excessive d'alcool est souvent un sujet de préoccupation important pour l'entourage familial et amical des buveurs en Ouganda, où le taux de consommation d'alcool par habitant est l'un des plus élevés au monde. Dans de nombreux cas, ces familles cherchent des remèdes pour leurs proches dans des petites boutiques tenues par des herboristes, auprès des spirites, dans les églises ou dans l'un des centres de cure nouvellement créés. Cependant, les actes d'intervention ne viennent pas uniquement des parents ou amis vivants, mais aussi d'esprits divers susceptibles de se manifester sans y être invités et en dehors de contextes thérapeutiques intentionnels. Dans cet article, les auteurs étudient un cas dans lequel l'esprit d'une mère intervient dans la vie de son fils, d'abord en possédant son corps puis en continuant à l'habiter de manière à le rendre incapable de boire. Ce cas souligne l'importance des forces vécues comme non-soi dans les processus de transformation de la vie et exige qu'on prête attention à un moment, dans la vie d'une personne, où le travail de soin se fait par un acte de force physique.
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