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Never in a hurry : essays on people and places
- Title
- Never in a hurry : essays on people and places / Naomi Shihab Nye.
- Author
- Nye, Naomi Shihab.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1996.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 253 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Potluck suppers with could-be relatives, junkets to exotic locales, and the importance of strangers in our lives. From potluck suppers to junkets to exotic locales, Nye looks at the importance of strangers in our lives. This collection of autobiographical essays on a variety of subjects reflects the people & places encountered by the author, a Palestinian American married to a Swedish American who has lived most of her life in San Antonio, Texas.
- Subject
- Contents
- Growing -- Newcomers in a Troubled Land -- The Cookies -- Commerce -- Three Pokes of a Thistle -- Thank You in Arabic -- One Village -- Local Hospitality -- Grazing -- Roses for Lubbock -- Camel Like Only Camel -- The Rattle of Wheels toward the Rooms of the New Mothers -- Nineties -- David Crockett's Other Life -- Favorite Cleaners, San Antonio -- Enigma -- My Life with Medicine -- Speaking Arabic -- Maintenance -- Tulips -- Pablo Tamayo -- The World and All Its Teeth -- Marie -- Keys -- Tomorrow We Smile -- Field Trip -- Neighborhood Quartet in a Minor Key -- Home Address -- Monumental -- Bread -- Broken Clock -- Poetry -- Banned Poem -- Women of the West -- Used Cars on Oahu -- Mint Snowball -- White Coals -- Talk, Talk, Talk -- One Moment on Top of the Earth.
- Call Number
- JFE 96-8039
- ISBN
- 1570030820 (pbk.)
- 9781570030826 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 95041778
- OCLC
- 33334295
- Author
- Nye, Naomi Shihab.
- Title
- Never in a hurry : essays on people and places / Naomi Shihab Nye.
- Imprint
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c1996.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 96-8039