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Precious: A True Story

P. Williams

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Description:'Gorgeously written with a fiercely honest voice. Williams will grow up [to become] Precious, "the writer, the grown woman..." How she gets there is a serpentine road that's as shatteringly moving as it is incredible. This book is not so much a coming-of-age story as a harrowing coming-to-be tale.' --The Boston Globe 'Astonishingly, there is little bitterness here: Williams's writing is accomplished -- pacey yet carefully spare, so that sadness and anger hover over her narrative rather than suffocate it. Such is the vividness of her characters and dialogue that, having unburdened herself, Williams now might choose -- with the promise of some success -- to turn her back on her day job as a journalist and find a powerful new voice by making the leap into fiction.' -- The Sunday TimesA memoir of racial identity and fractured family set in 1970s and ’80s Britain. Born in London to a Nigerian princess, Precious Williams saw her life change radically in its first months. Her mother, deciding she couldn’t raise a child, placed an ad for foster care in Nursery World. A response soon came from a woman in rural Sussex, and Precious, three months old, was handed off in a basket. Nan, Precious’s new foster mother, was fifty seven years old and white, and prided herself on being “color blind.” But she might also have been shortsighted about the difficulties her black daughter would encounter. At her all-white school, Precious was taunted and ostracized, and Nan struggled to understand her daughter’s troubles. Precious’s birth mother would visit occasionally, providing glimpses of a different world, but eventually turned critical of a daughter who had become “too white.” Retreating into her imagination, Precious forged her own identity. She emerged from the disillusionment and self-destructiveness of her teen years with a fierce resolve not to let circumstance, class, or color determine her future. Precious Williams tells her extraordinary story in Color Blind, brightly, bravely grappling with issues of identity, motherhood, and race.'Precious Williams' brave examination of identity and loss reminds us that by going into the heart of what we are most afraid of, we find our liberation.' -- Eve Ensler, creator of the Vagina MonologuesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Precious: A True Story. To get started finding Precious: A True Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Release: 2010

ISBN: 0747584214

Description: 'Gorgeously written with a fiercely honest voice. Williams will grow up [to become] Precious, "the writer, the grown woman..." How she gets there is a serpentine road that's as shatteringly moving as it is incredible. This book is not so much a coming-of-age story as a harrowing coming-to-be tale.' --The Boston Globe 'Astonishingly, there is little bitterness here: Williams's writing is accomplished -- pacey yet carefully spare, so that sadness and anger hover over her narrative rather than suffocate it. Such is the vividness of her characters and dialogue that, having unburdened herself, Williams now might choose -- with the promise of some success -- to turn her back on her day job as a journalist and find a powerful new voice by making the leap into fiction.' -- The Sunday TimesA memoir of racial identity and fractured family set in 1970s and ’80s Britain. Born in London to a Nigerian princess, Precious Williams saw her life change radically in its first months. Her mother, deciding she couldn’t raise a child, placed an ad for foster care in Nursery World. A response soon came from a woman in rural Sussex, and Precious, three months old, was handed off in a basket. Nan, Precious’s new foster mother, was fifty seven years old and white, and prided herself on being “color blind.” But she might also have been shortsighted about the difficulties her black daughter would encounter. At her all-white school, Precious was taunted and ostracized, and Nan struggled to understand her daughter’s troubles. Precious’s birth mother would visit occasionally, providing glimpses of a different world, but eventually turned critical of a daughter who had become “too white.” Retreating into her imagination, Precious forged her own identity. She emerged from the disillusionment and self-destructiveness of her teen years with a fierce resolve not to let circumstance, class, or color determine her future. Precious Williams tells her extraordinary story in Color Blind, brightly, bravely grappling with issues of identity, motherhood, and race.'Precious Williams' brave examination of identity and loss reminds us that by going into the heart of what we are most afraid of, we find our liberation.' -- Eve Ensler, creator of the Vagina MonologuesWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Precious: A True Story. To get started finding Precious: A True Story, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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