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The Impossible: The Miraculous Story of a Mother's Faith and Her Child's Resurrection is a non-fiction biography.It was written by American author Joyce Smith, alongside contributor Ginger Kolbaba. The book, released on November 7, 2017, tells the story of Joyce's 14-year-old son John, who fell through icy Lake Sainte Louise, the smaller of two ...
Ubasute no tsuki (The Moon of Ubasute), one of the 100 works in the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Ubasute (姥捨て, "abandoning an old woman", also called obasute and sometimes oyasute 親捨て "abandoning a parent") is a mythical practice of senicide in Japan, whereby an infirm or elderly relative was carried to a mountain, or some other remote, desolate ...
This is a list of exophonic writers, i.e. those who write in a language not generally regarded as their first or mother tongue.For more on the phenomenon, see the main article Exophony.
Julian Gloag (2 July 1930 – 12 September 2023) was an English novelist. He was the author of eleven novels, the best known of which is his first, Our Mother’s House (1963), which was made into a film of the same name starring Dirk Bogarde.
The story details Edelman's personal journey over those weeks from a “hard-core cynical intellectual” to someone open to the possibility of the unseen. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it “a charming memoir full of self-deprecating humor,” and People lauded is as “an intimate account of the struggles of parenting ...
Silence Is My Mother Tongue is a novel by Sulaiman Addonia, published October 25, 2018 by Graywolf Press. The book was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Fiction [1] and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. [2] [3] It follows " two siblings attempting to find stability within the chaos of a [refugee ...
[5] E. Ce Miller of Bustle wrote that Drinking Coffee Elsewhere is "the one book every woman should read in her 20s." [6] Packer was an honoree for the 2006 National Book Award for the 5 under 35 category due to the book. [7] The book won an Alex Award from the American Library Association in 2004. [8]
"The Story of a Mother" (Danish: Historien om en moder) is a story by the Danish poet, travel writer, short story writer and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). The tale was first published in December 1847. The story has been made into films several times, and was also adapted into an animated film which used the stop-motion puppet ...