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A Feather on the Breath of God
A Feather on the Breath of God
Author: Sigrid Nunez
A haunting, heart-rending first novel by an award-winning writer that speaks to the difficulties of forging an identity in a world of different cultures -- and to the complexities of familial and sexual love. — Growing up in a New York housing project during the 1950s and 1960s, a young woman, the child of multi-ethnic immigrant parents, escapes ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060171513
ISBN-10: 0060171510
Publication Date: 1/1995
Pages: 180
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This strange, lucid story of the unwished-for child of unassimilated immigrants takes us well beyond the particulars of "mixed ethnicity"--beyond even the experience of America--into deep paradoxes of identity and love. Both old-fashioned and subversive, stringent and redemptive, it's a pleasure from the first page to the last.


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