Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This collection constitutes a memorable portrait of coming-of-age in America." Booklist, ALA
Synopsis
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 North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters.
About the Author
'SUSAN RICHARDS SHREVE has published thirteen novels, most recently A Student of Living Things. She is a professor of English at George Mason University and formerly cochairman and president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. Shreve lives in Washington, D.C.Marian Wright Edelman is the president of the Children\'s Defense Fund and the author of the best-selling The Measure of Our Success, Guide My Feet, and Lanterns. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.'