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    Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American
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    Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American
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    Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American

    Written by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan

    Narrated by Various Narrators

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    About this audiobook

    Stories navigating the complicated terrain of race in America, from acclaimed writers like Toni Morrison, E.L. Doctorow, Sandra Cisneros, Sherman Alexie, and Amy Tan.

    The editors who brought us Unsettling America and Identity Lessons have compiled a short-story anthology that focuses on themes of racial and ethnic assimilation. With humor, passion, and grace, the contributors lay bare poignant attempts at conformity and the alienation sometimes experienced by ethnic Americans. But they also tell of the strength gained through the preservation of their communities and the realization that it was often their difference from the norm that helped them to succeed.

    In pieces suggesting that American identity is far from settled, these writers illustrate the diversity that is the source of both the nation's great discord and infinite promise.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateDec 18, 2018
    ISBN9781984844712
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    Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American
    Author

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan

    Maria Mazziotti Gillan is Director of the Poetry Center at Passaic Country Community College, and Editor of the Paterson Literary Review. She is the author of over a dozen works. Among her many honors, she received the 2008 American Book Award, and 2011 Barnes and Noble Writers For Writers Award. Other awards received by Gillan include the May Sarton Award, the Fearing Houghton Award, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and the American Literary Translators Association Award through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pietro di Donato award, and the John Fante award from the Sons of Italy in America. She lives in New Jersey. 

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