![]() ![]() ![]() Females have lower lifetime earnings than males and, as a result, get less in Social Security. This is after she found, and was impressed by, the amount of older, single women that made it out on the road. With the book, she saw the opportunity to do something different from typical “road books” that are told from a male perspective, and put women’s perspectives front and center. ![]() The project spanned the course of three years and over fifteen thousand miles of driving, from one coast to the other and from Mexico up to the Canadian border. ![]() She says they prefer to call themselves “houseless”. She has gotten support for her work from fellowships at the Logan Nonfiction Program, Yaddo, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and MacDowell.įor her book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” she spent months living in her camper van, documenting itinerant Americans that gave up traditional housing, hit the road full time, and enabled them to travel from different jobs to make a place for themselves in America’s precarious economy. She graduated from Amherst College in the year 2000 with a BA in English and French and got her master’s in journalism from Columbia University in the year 2005. Jessica Bruder, a journalist and New American fellow, writes about resilience, social issues, and different subcultures. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But then legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots her at an audition. Korey was Enchanted’s ticket to stardom.īefore there was a dead body, Enchanted was an aspiring singer, struggling with her tight knit family’s recent move to the suburbs while trying to find her place as the lone Black girl in high school. ![]() All she really knows is that this isn’t how things are supposed to be. When Enchanted Jones wakes with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night, no one-the police and Korey’s fans included-has more questions than she does. Even before I read it, I had heard great things about your writing so it was an easy decision to request your newest book, Grown, based on the following blurb: The book had a powerful mystery at its center, a disappearance of a teenager noticed only by her best friend. Child rape, emotional abuse, physical abuseĪ couple of months ago I read and reviewed your YA novel, Monday’s Not Coming, and was impressed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It also considers Fonda's early life and the effect it had on her behavior and beliefs in her later years, her audience of American POWs who were forced by the Vietnamese to listen to her broadcasts condemning them as war criminals, her arrival in Vietnam and how it was viewed by American servicemen and civilians, the crime of treason throughout history, and the only Congressional inquiry into her actions, which resulted in the government's decision to take no legal action against her. This work investigates Fonda's activities in North Vietnam and argues that she could have been indicted for treason, that there would have been enough evidence to take the case to a jury, that she could have been convicted, and that a conviction probably would have been upheld on appeal. ![]() Instead, she has made millions, been the recipient of countless awards, and remained an honored American icon. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s only by facing up to your fears that you can overcome them. Meanwhile at uni, Aled is alone, fighting even darker secrets. She has to confess why Carys disappeared. Suffocating with guilt, she knows that she has to confront her past. Then the podcast goes viral and the fragile trust between them is broken.Ĭaught between who she was and who she longs to be, Frances’ dreams come crashing down. ![]() He unlocks the door to Real Frances and for the first time she experiences true friendship, unafraid to be herself. Nothing will stand in her way not friends, not a guilty secret – not even the person she is on the inside.īut when Frances meets Aled, the shy genius behind her favourite podcast, she discovers a new freedom. What if everything you set yourself up to be was wrong?įrances has always been a study machine with one goal, elite university. The second novel by the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, the author of the 2021 YA Book Prize winning Loveless, Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series. ![]() ![]() If you didn’t support the war and refused to fight, then you are branded the worst kind of patriot. Will and Kim are on opposite ends of the social and ideological spectrums, but when they come together, the chemistry is undeniable.Īfter reading all three books, I can finally tell you that this series is like if a Sherlock story was from Watson’s perspective, and Sherlock was more of a Mycroft-Sherlock mash-up (leaning into the rich person connections and devious, duplicitous nature of Mycroft paired with the pensiveness and cleverness of Sherlock), but set in the 1920s. Ex-soldiers returned to their hometowns for a pat on the back and zero job prospects. ![]() It’s the end of World War I in London, England, and the aftermath of war is still very much causing ripples throughout society. No pressure, KJ! The Will Darling Adventures series by KJ Charles It’s week two of FYA’s Grown-Up Guide to Romance Novels and I’m so excited you’re here! I earmarked this series in 2020 for Grown-Up Guide and then couldn’t fit it in last February, so I’ve been waiting an entire year and a half to get this historical mystery M/M romance fix. ![]() What’s Your Type: Spies, Cozy Mysteries, 1920s Goodness, Bookstore Porn, Slow Burn Relationships Sub-Genres: Historical M/M, Mysteries, Thrillers ![]() |