Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

Rosewater (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari (Author), Aimee Molloy (Author), Jon Meacham (Foreword)
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Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

Rosewater: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari (Author), Aimee Molloy (Author), Jon Meacham (Foreword)
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Rosewater: Previously published as Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival

Rosewater: Previously published as Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival
Maziar Bahari (Author), Aimee Molloy (Author), Jon Meacham (Foreword)
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Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev

Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev
Andrey Kurkov (Author), Sam Taylor (Translator)
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Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Denise Brennan (Author)
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Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At once scholarly and accessible, her book links these firsthand accounts to global economic inequities and under-regulated and unprotected workplaces that routinely exploit migrant laborers in the United States. Brennan contends that today's punitive immigration policies undermine efforts to fight trafficking. While many believe trafficking happens only in the sex trade, Brennan shows that across low-wage labor sectors—in fields, in factories, and on construction sites—widespread exploitation can lead to and conceal forced labor. Life Interrupted is a riveting account of life in and after trafficking and a forceful call for meaningful immigration and labor reform.

All royalties from this book will be donated to the nonprofit Survivor Leadership Training Fund administered through the Freedom Network.
 

• Rank: #386175 in Books
• Published on: 2014-03-18
• Original language: English
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• 304 pages

Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh

Among the Bloodpeople: Politics and Flesh
Thomas Glave (Author), Yusef Komunyakaa (Introduction)

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With an introduction by Pulitzer PrizeAwinning poet Yusef Komunyakaa

"A profound compassion for racial and sexual minorities, the oppressed, and the colonized, informs [Glave’s] searing, beautifully evocative collection of essays...He captures the languor and seductiveness of Jamaica...A graceful and original stylist, Glave highlights the marginalizedAcalling on the descendants of people who toiled for the Empire as slaves and colonial subjects to never forget their past, and, in effect, to those who profit from that past to acknowledge their complicity. Ultimately, his work is critical, yet filled with generosity and compassion."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review

AGlave’s prose is a thing of poetry, passion, beauty, and clarity in its compelling appeal for the space of human love and tolerance. A joy to read.”
--Ngugi wa Thiong’o, author of Dreams in a Time of War

"Glave's voice resonates in the plucked string holding each sentence together, an echo of James Baldwin and Jean Genet; his language carries the full freight of witness . . . His language is seductive and regenerative, critical and humanizing, almost mathematically gauged and encompassing, and it never fails to hold us accountable. But alongside the terror we witness, moments of sheer beauty seethe out of the landscapeAnot as a balm, but as needful epistles of reflection . . . Glave has done a heroic deed.”
--Yusef Komunyakaa, Pulitzer PrizeAwinning author of Neon Vernacular

"Glave is a gifted stylist . . . blessed with ambition, his own voice, and an impressive willingness to dissect how individuals actually think and behave."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Glave's literary temperament has been described as 'Faulknerian,' and the comparison speaks volumes. He achieves astonishing tonal effects . . . [and] has a poet's way with words."
--The Washington Post

Thomas Glave has been admired for his unique style and exploration of taboo, politically volatile topics. The award-winning author's new collection, Among the Bloodpeople, contains all the power and daring of his earlier writing but ventures even further into the political, the personal, and the secret.

Each essay in the volume reveals a passionate commitment to social justice and human truth. Whether confronting Jamaica's prime minister on antigay bigotry, contemplating the risks and seductions of "outlawed" sex, exploring a world of octopuses and men performing somersaults in the Caribbean Sea, or challenging repressive tactics employed at the University of Cambridge, Glave expresses the observations of a global citizen with the voice of a poet.

Thomas Glave is the multiple Lambda AwardAwinning author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent, and The Torturer's Wife, and is the editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. Glave has been the Martin Luther King Jr. visiting professor at MIT, and is a 2012 visiting fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.

• Rank: #103091 in Books
• Published on: 2013-07-02
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages