Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles by Chad Berry, ISBN 0252068416
One of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history, the great white migration left its mark on virtually every family in every southern upland and flatland town. In this extraordinary record of ordinary lives, dozens of white southern migrants describe their experiences in the northern "wilderness" and their irradicable attachments to family and community in the South.
Southern out-migration drew millions of southern workers to the steel mills, automobile factories, and even fields and orchards of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. Through vivid oral histories, Chad Berry explores the conflict between migrants' economic success and their "spiritual exile" in the North. He documents the tension between factory owners who welcomed cheap, naive southern laborers and local "native" workers who greeted migrants with suspicion and hostility. He examines the phenomenon of "shuttle migration", in which migrants came north to work during the winter and returned home to plant spring crops on their southern farms. He also explores the impact of southern traditions -- especially the southern evangelical church and "hillbilly" music -- brought north by migrants.
Berry argues that in spite of being scorned by midwesterners for violence, fecundity, intoxication, laziness, and squalor, the vast majority of southern whites who moved to the Midwest found the economic prosperity they were seeking. By allowing southern migrants to assess their own experiences and tell their own stories, Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles refutes persistent stereotypes about migrants' clannishness, life-style, work ethic, and success in the North.
Hiroshima Joe by Martin Booth, ISBN 031226805X
First published in 1985, "Hiroshima Joe" is one of the most powerful novels about the experience of war. Joe Sandingham was interred in a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. Years later, a shell of a man and living in a cheap Hong Kong hotel, his compassion and will to survive define a clear-eyed and unexpected heroism.
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The Van by Roddy Doyle, ISBN 0140171916
The further misadventures of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin--from the author of The Commitments and The Snapper. This story follows Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend through Dublin, selling cheap grub to the drunk and hungry--keeping one step ahead of the health officials.
The Van by Roddy Doyle, ISBN 0140171916
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Hiroshima Joe by Martin Booth, ISBN 031226805X
First published in 1985, "Hiroshima Joe" is one of the most powerful novels about the experience of war. Joe Sandingham was interred in a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima when the bomb was dropped. Years later, a shell of a man and living in a cheap Hong Kong hotel, his compassion and will to survive define a clear-eyed and unexpected heroism.
Hiroshima Joe by Martin Booth, ISBN 031226805X
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Naked Aviator
Naked Aviator intermingles some very strange flying stories with the harsh, tender, humorous, tragic and beautiful realities of living in an imperfect world. Naked Aviator is about life and where it takes you. The magic carpet that delivers the reader to all of the adventures just happens to be an aircraft, rather than an oriental rug. Naked Aviator elevates aviation in small aircraft to a higher level - a more meaningful place than flights to restaurants looking for the good and cheap burger. It speaks to what matters in our lives but does it without being preachy. Fun is the operative word. To those who read it, flying will become a passion, whether they become pilots or not. "It makes you want to fly," as one reader explained. "It makes you want to live more and fret less." It makes you want to read the chapter about 'The Dead Man's Shoes, Shotgun Sally and the Sawed off Nasty.
Naked Aviator
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