Green Card & Other Essays
Green Card & Other Essays
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Author(s): Greaney, Aine
ISBN No.: 9781732451421
Pages: 88
Year: 201904
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 22.08
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

True, this book is a delight to read--but please don't let the good humor, the deft turns of phrase, the endearing bemusement, and obvious likeability of the author fool you: Green Card is an acutely serious contribution to the literature of immigration in our times. Áine Greaney's deeply interior vignettes also look outward, asking us to rethink something at the heart of the American experience, the psychic and societal consequences of being an American-in-process in a nation that is itself in process.--James Silas Rogers, author, Irish-American Autobiographyand editor, New Hibernia Review Aine Greaney's deft, subtle, and deceptively quiet essays lead from the every day incident to the heart-breaking but never sentimental examination of the nexus of identity and "home." She dexterously shows the immigrant glancing back to her past even as she looks to the uncertainties of the present and hope of acceptance. In this collection, the reader can also find that the foreign becomes warmly familiar.--Sandra Hunter, author, Trip Wires.


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