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Almost Americans by Patricia Justiniani McReynolds
264 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 |
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American history is told through individual movements of human life coming
together into the greater whole. It is the shear wealth of complex and diverse
elements that gives America its strength and meaning. At a time when difficult
issues are being raised in our society about the recent influx of people
from around the world, these memoirs allow us to see on an individual level
both the enormous contribution to the entire society people like the author's
family have made and the often degrading barriers society has placed in
their way. The internal search for integration is a constant of the human
condition. "Almost Americans" is a story of that search which
is painful but infused with the joys of self-realization. |
Janet Brody Esser, Ph. D. |
atricia Justiniani McReynolds has produced a beautifully written and
deeply moving account of her childhood. With crystalline clarity she recalls
the pain of a child whose culturally ingenuous immigrant parents unwittingly
dared to disobey the ingrained American taboo against interracial marriage.
It is the child, Patsy, who suffers the stings of prejudice and feels obligated
to assume the parental role of helping her Filipino-born father and Norwegian-born
mother negotiate the shoals of racism. That her parents epitomized in so
many ways American's officially articulated values of education, hard work,
and primacy of family made the experience of being 'almost Americans' even
more puzzling and painful to this sensitive and intelligent child. ALMOST
AMERICANS is a thoroughly American saga and should resonate with all who
are interested in the multi-cultural richness of our heritage."Order Form | Home | Literature Page