Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America

by Susan Richards Shreve

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In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in. The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, Your house smells funny, and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0618379029

ISBN13:9780618379026

Release Date:October 2003

Publisher:Houghton Mifflin

Length:223 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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