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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN num: 9780299214203
ISBN number: 0299214206
Label: University of Wisconsin Press
Manufacturer: University of Wisconsin Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: August 17, 2005
Publishing house: University of Wisconsin Press
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Studio: University of Wisconsin Press
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A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humour as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez very first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers. Growing up in post–World War II America, a stranger to her own past, she survived a harrowing adolescence and an increasingly menacing, abusive adoptive family by learning to define her single solace: a developing passion for literature.
Facing possible deportation in the 1950s, Inez set out to prove her claim to U.S. citizenship. The result, as she recounts in this eloquent, wrenching memoir, would span two continents, a trail of discovery, and a buried secret: one that ultimately allowed Inez to reconcile her past and present and finally come of age as an artist.
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