Title
Notes from no man's land : American essays / Eula Biss.
ISBN
9781555975180 paperback alkaline paper
1555975186 paperback alkaline paper
Imprint
Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2009.
Language
English
Description
230 p. ; 21 cm
Call Number
PS3602.I77 N68 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification
814/.6
Summary
A volume of essays by the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize-winning author of The Balloonists considers her mixed heritage as the daughter of a Jamaican father and white mother who embraces a West African faith, the legacy of the Reconstruction as taught in public schools, and the nation's misconceptions about pioneer nobility.
Time and distance overcome
Relations
Three songs of salvage
Land mines
Goodbye to all that
Black news
Letter to Mexico
Babylon
Back to Buxton
Is this Kansas
No man's land
Nobody knows your name
All apologies.
