█ _ ميريديث ماران 1997 حصريا كتاب ❞ What It's Like to Live Now ❝ عن جميع الحقوق محفوظة للمؤلف 2024 Now: In 1968 Meredith Maran was expelled from her prestigious New York high school for leading anti war protests Nearly thirty years later, with an ex husband, two teenage sons, a female lover, and mortgaged dream house on the edge of Oakland ghetto, she's still trying change world but this time it's personal In To , explores gap between dreams '60s realities '90s, in book filled uncommon insight own wickedly subversive sense humor Reading is like having dinner your funniest, most unshockable woman friend You won't want it end أجتماعي هادف مجاناً PDF اونلاين ركن خاص بكتب مجانيه للتحميل
❞ With her keen eye for contradictions, Meredith Maran finds our new realities in surprising on a racquetball court facing an unyielding female opponent; before a classroom of high school students, openly discussing her bisexuality; in a courtroom during a sexual abuse trial. Through her singular experiences she illuminates the issues millions of women confront her thorny relationship with her mother; the politics of flirting; the struggle to raise caring, responsible children in the face of racism and violence.
This is writing we need
-alive with humor and emotion and totally engaged with the life of our times . ❝
❞ ˝I˝d marched for reproductive rights, but I still mourned the baby I aborted when I was twenty. I˝d been in a lesbian relationship for eleven years, but when my car broke down I still longed for a husband. I˝d picketed beauty pageants, but I˝d been secretly dieting for fifteen years.˝ . ❝
❞ Today we earn more money than our mothers did, at jobs they never dreamed of doing. We are less likely to stay in unhappy marriages, to bear unwanted
children. But have we achieved what we set out to accomplish? Do women--whether they˝re twenty or forty or sixty--feel more in control of their lives? Has feminism made us more--or less--fulfilled in our relationships with men and with each other? . ❝
❞ Meredith Maran˝s first book, What It˝s Like to Live Now , was an amazingly candid and often hilarious memoir of her journey from a sixties idealist to a nineties new woman, complete with two teenage sons, a female lover, and a hefty mortgage. Now, with the same reckless honesty, she returns to explore life--hers and ours, female and male--in the wake of the women˝s movement . ❝
❞ Looking into the lives of these young people, in this American town, at this time in history, we see more than what˝s true---and what˝s possible--for Berkeley High. We see what˝s true and what˝s possible for America . ❝
❞ A third-generation Berkeley High student, Keith is bright and popular, a talented football player who hopes to play college ball and one day, go pro. But Keith has a reading problem that threatens his NFL dream. And the Berkeley police have a problem with Keith that threatens his very freedom . ❝
❞ From the outside, Jordan˝s life looks perfect. He hangs out with the ˝rich white kids˝; rows on the crew team, has a cool mom, applied early to an East Coast college. But Jordan˝s drug-addicted father died last year, leaving Jordan reeling with grief and anger that makes his life feel anything but perfect-and his future suddenly seem uncertain . ❝
❞ Autumn was ten when her father abandoned her family; since then she˝s been helping her mother raise her two little brothers and keep food on the table-while keeping her grades up so she can go to college. Her faith in God gives Autumn strength, but who will give her the money she needs when she˝s offered the opportunity of a lifetime؟ . ❝
❞ My Lie is a wrenchingly honest, unexpectedly witty, and profoundly human story that proves the personal is indeed political--and the political can become painfully personal . ❝
❞ Exploring the psychological, cultural, and neuroscientific causes of this modern American witch-hunt, My Lie asks: how could so many people come to believe the same lie at the same time? What has neuroscience discovered about the brain\\˝s capacity to create false memories and encode false beliefs? What are the ˝big lies˝ gaining traction in American culture today--and how can we keep them from taking hold؟ . ❝
❞ Maran unveils her family˝s devastation and ultimate redemption against the backdrop of the sex-abuse scandals, beginning with the infamous McMartin preschool trial, that sent hundreds of innocents to jail--several of whom remain imprisoned today . ❝
❞ Eager to escape her damaging past and chart her own future, Alison Rose is drawn to Zoe, a free-spirited artist who offers emotional stability and a love outside the norm. After many happy years together, the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake deepens fissures in the two women’s relationship, and Alison leaves Zoe for a new, ˝normal” life with a man. Alison’s son is the outcome of both of these complicated relationships, and the three parents strive to create a life together that will test the boundaries of love and family in changing times . ❝