Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars: A MemoirSimon and Schuster, 2003 - 351 oldal "Learning Joy from Dogs Without Collars" is about my memories of growing up, being raised by an eccentric and uniquely idealistic single mother. It is about how I was sometimes homeless and lived in shelters and in one apartment after another. It is about adventures my mother and I had, including moving across the country -- from Astoria, Oregon, a small coastal town, to Boston, Massachusetts, a bigger city on a different coast. It is about how I -- by accident, it seemed -- found myself to be the only girl on a high school wrestling team, how that worked out, and what I learned. The book is also about how I later went to Harvard, a world completely unlike the ones I grew up in; how I adapted to life there. It is about how I met my father when I was nineteen, and how my father finally became my dad. It is about all of these things, and everything in between. It is the story of a girl coming into her own, learning and understanding her place in the world. It is about the innocence and resiliency of childhood -- the space of happiness and joy which poverty was unable to demolish or diminish. |
Tartalomjegyzék
Prologue | 1 |
Discipline Part I | 7 |
986 | 26 |
The Quarterdeck | 130 |
15 | 138 |
Quincy High School | 156 |
19 | 181 |
Cutting | 200 |
Blueberry Honey | 234 |
Parents Weekend | 240 |
Sleeping Outside | 244 |
The Universe and Everything | 253 |
Discipline Part II | 259 |
Love Is Bodies Blood and Sweat | 266 |
Meeting Him | 296 |
How to Make a Room of Your Own | 324 |
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