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Kate’s 2¢: “Angels of September” by Andrew M. Greenley
“Angels of September” by Andrew M. Greenley
I was happy to find out that the author, The Reverend Dr. Andrew Greeley, was an insider and knew of what he wrote.
“The four principal angels of September are priest, lover, psychiatrist, and patrol officer representing the church at its most caring best.”
I enjoyed this story read by Pam Ward.
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The Reverend Dr. Andrew Greeley (February 5, 1928 – May 29, 2013) was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and popular novelist. He was a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and a research associate with the National Opinion Research Center (NORC).
For many years, Greeley wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times and contributed regularly to The New York Times, the National Catholic Reporter, America, and Commonweal.
Life and career[edit]
Greeley was born into a large Irish Catholic family in Oak Park, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago) in 1928.[1] He grew up during the Great Depression in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, where he attended St. Angela Elementary School,[2] and by the second grade, he knew that he wanted to be a priest.[3][4] After studying at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, Greeley received an AB degree from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Chicago in 1950, a Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) in 1952, and a Licentiate of Sacred Theology (STL) in 1954, when he was ordained for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
From 1954 to 1964, Greeley served as an assistant pastor at Christ the King parish in Chicago, during which time he studied sociology at the University of Chicago. His first book, The Church in the Suburbs (1958), was drawn from notes a sociology professor had encouraged him to take describing his experiences.[4] He received a Master of Arts in 1961 and a PhD in 1962. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the influence of religion on the career plans of 1961 college graduates. At various times, Greeley was a professor at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago. He was denied tenure by the University of Chicago in 1973, despite having been a faculty member there for a decade and having published dozens of books; he attributed the denial to anti-Catholic prejudice, although a colleague said his cantankerous temperament was more to blame.[4] In 1991, he was granted a professorship in social science at the University.
Sociology[edit]
As a sociologist, he published a large number of influential academic works during the 1960s and 1970s, including Unsecular Man: The Persistence of Religion (1972) and The American Catholic: A Social Portrait (1977).[1] Over the course of his career, he authored more than 70 scholarly books,[1][4] largely focusing on the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. His early work challenged the widespread assumption that Catholics had low college attendance rates, showing that white Catholics were in fact more successful than other whites in obtaining college undergraduate and graduate degrees, which he attributed to what he called the high-quality education Catholics received in parochial schools.[4] He also studied how religion influenced the political behavior of ethnic Catholics, and he was one of the first scholars to document the sociological effects of the Second Vatican Council’s reforms on American Catholics.[1][4]
In the early 1970s, the U.S. bishops commissioned him to write a profile of the American priesthood.[1] He completed a two-year survey in 1972, reporting that dissatisfaction among the priests was widespread; but the bishops rejected his findings.[4] Greeley said, “Honesty compels me to say that I believe the present leadership in the church to be morally, intellectually and religiously bankrupt.”[4]
Greeley’s sociological work was also viewed with suspicion by some of his fellow clerics, and his archbishop (later cardinal), John Cody, denied Greeley’s request for a parish ministry.[4] Greeley criticized Cody, calling him a “madcap tyrant” when Cody closed a number of inner-city schools.
Interpreting American Catholicism[edit]
Greeley’s biographer summarizes his interpretation:
He argued for the continued salience of ethnicity in American life and the distinctiveness of the Catholic religious imagination. Catholics differed from other Americans, he explained in a variety of publications, by their tendency to think in “sacramental” terms, imagining God as present in a world that was revelatory rather than bleak. The poetic elements in the Catholic tradition–its stories, imagery, and rituals–kept most Catholics in the fold, according to Greeley, whatever their disagreements with particular aspects of church discipline or doctrine. But Greeley also insisted on the disastrous impact of Humanae Vitae, the 1968 papal encyclical upholding the Catholic ban on contraception, holding it almost solely responsible for a sharp decline in weekly Mass attendance between 1968 and 1975. He believed that lay Catholics understood far better than their bishops that sex in marriage was intended by God to be joyous and playful, a true means of grace.[5]
As described by John L. Allen Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter, Greeley became fascinated with what has been called the Catholic “analogical imagination”, the idea that “visible, tangible things in the created order serve as metaphors for the divine, as opposed to the more textual and literal religious sensibility of Protestants and others.”[1] Greeley believed that it was this viewpoint that had led the church to be a pre-eminent patron of the arts through the centuries, allowing it to communicate through artistic imagery spiritual concepts that doctrinal texts alone could not.[1] Greeley’s appreciation for the spiritual power of art inspired him to begin writing works of fiction.[1]
Fiction[edit]
Greeley’s literary output was such it was said that he “never had an unpublished thought”.[3][6] He said, “The only way I can write fiction is to keep those hours from 6:00 to 9:00 A.M. sacred.”[7] He published his first novel, The Magic Cup, in 1975,[1] a fantasy tale about a young king who would lead Ireland from paganism to Christianity. A second novel, Death in April, followed in 1980.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Angels of September DB23008
Greeley, Andrew M. Reading time: 15 hours, 2 minutes.
Read by Pam Ward.
Mystery and Detective Stories
Psychological Fiction
Bestsellers
Ann Reilly, an attractive, superficially successful career woman plagued by many insecurities, reluctantly seeks professional counsel. During the course of her therapy, she unleashes a host of painful memories and repressed emotions triggering a series of bizarre telekinetic episodes. A policeman, a priest, and a psychiatrist join forces to prevent Ann from succumbing to her dark side. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1986.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips
“Night Watch” by Jayne Anne Phillips
Once I got used to the synthesized speech, cadence, and inclusion of page numbers, I enjoyed this book. I’m not sure I like the ending, but it is what it is.
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In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.
The omnipresent vagaries of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their story: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee’s father, who left for the War and never returned. Meanwhile, in the asylum, they begin to find a new path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother’s maid; Eliza responds slowly to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility—the mysterious man they call the Night Watch; the orphan child called Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at the head of the institution.
Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice” by David Tatel
“Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice” by David Tatel
Granted, this is a book written by the author of his long career as a lawyer and judge; his memories, his experiences, so, they are personal. While I enjoyed learning how the feceral court system functioned during his term, I would have preferred to learn about his blind journey without the political bias.
David S. Tatel – Wikipedia
David Stephen Tatel (born March 16, 1942) is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Education and career
Retired federal judge David Tatel on blindness and losing …
Jul 3, 2024 · David Tatel, a former judge on the nation’s second highest court, shares his concerns about the state of our democracy and our judiciary. His new book is Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and…
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David Tatel | Washington, D.C. | Hogan Lovells
David S. Tatel is a senior counsel with the Litigation, Arbitration and Employment practice. Prior to returning to Hogan Lovells, Judge Tatel spent nearly 30 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where he was appointed by President Clinton in 1994 to fill the seat previously held by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Jun 11, 2024 · David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved–or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal …
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Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice: Tatel, David S …
Jun 11, 2024 · David Tatel was a superstar trial lawyer in two of the world’s best law firms. He gave that up to advance the cause of civil rights at the highest level. He then distinguished himself as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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Vision: a memoir of blindness and justice. DB122023
Tatel, David S. Reading time: 10 hours, 22 minutes.
Read by John Lescault; David S. Tatel.
Biography of Persons with Disabilities
Disability
U.S. History
“A memoir by one of America’s most accomplished public servants and legal thinkers—who spent years denying and working around his blindness, before finally embracing it as an essential part of his identity. David Tatel has served nearly 30 years on America’s second highest court, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, where many of our most crucial cases are resolved—or teed up for the Supreme Court. He has championed equal justice for his entire adult life; decided landmark environmental and voting cases; and embodied the ideal of what a great judge should be. Yet he has been blind for the past 50 of his 80-plus years. Initially, he depended upon aides to read texts to him, and more recently, a suite of hi-tech solutions has allowed him to listen to reams of documents at high speeds. At first, he tried to hide his deteriorating vision, and for years, he denied that it had any impact on his career. Only recently, partly thanks to his first-ever guide dog, Vixen, has he come to fully accept his blindness and the role it’s played in his personal and professional lives. His story of fighting for justice over many decades, with and without eyesight, is an inspiration to us all.”– Goodreads. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “The golden doves: a novel” by Martha Hall Kelly
“The golden doves: a novel” by Martha Hall Kelly
This was one of seven stories sent on a cartridge from NLS, so I read it.
Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Marta Hall Kelly, Saskia Maarleveld did a good job of narrating this book. The author provided the narration in the beginning and at the end of the well-researched, creative, non-fiction story.
The back and forth time-line kept the narrative arc advancing, while providing detailed background information.
I enjoyed this book
Martha’s debut novel Lilac Girls, became a New York Times bestseller the week it was published in 2016 and then went on to sell over two million copies and publish in 50 countries. The novel is based on the true story of 72 Polish women who were imprisoned and experimented on at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp.
Martha Hall Kelly is an author and native New Englander, still pinching herself since her debut novel Lilac Girls, became a New York Times bestseller the week it was published in April 2016. Following Lilac Girls, she wrote two prequel novels, Lost Roses (April 2019) and Sunflower Sisters (March 2021).
Martha Hall Kelly – New York Times Bestselling Author
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From NLS/BARD/LOC:
The golden doves: a novel DB116590
Kelly, Martha Hall Reading time: 16 hours, 49 minutes.
Jeremy Carlisle Parker; Marta Hall Kelly; Saskia Maarleveld
Suspense Fiction
Historical Fiction
Spy Stories
“American Josie Anderson and Parisian Arlette LaRue are thrilled to be working in the French resistance, stealing so many Nazi secrets that they become known as the Golden Doves, renowned across France and hunted by the Gestapo. Their courage will cost them everything. When they are finally arrested and taken to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, along with their loved ones, a reclusive Nazi doctor does unspeakable things to Josie’s mother, a celebrated Jewish singer who joined her daughter in Paris when the world seemed bright. And Arlette’s son is stolen from her, never to be seen again. A decade later the Doves fall headlong into a dangerous dual mission: Josie is working for U.S. Army Intelligence and accepts an assignment to hunt down the infamous doctor, while a mysterious man tells Arlette he may have found her son. The Golden Doves embark on a quest across Europe and ultimately to French Guiana, discovering a web of terrible secrets, and must put themselves in grave danger to finally secure justice and protect the ones they love.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “All the little bird-hearts” by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
“All the little bird-hearts” by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
Rose Akroyd did a good job of reading this novel. I like the title and think it exemplified the enigma that is the autism spectrum.
I felt an over-whelming sadness at the end of the story, until I read the epilogue. Then, I didn’t feel quite so angry at loosing her child. When I read about Vita’s taking the infant of AnnaBelle, I wondered if that was a fore-shadowing of what was to come.
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Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow is a British writer whose debut novel, All the Little Bird-Hearts, was longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize.[1] The novel tells of a friendship that develops between Sunday, an autistic woman living in a Lake District home, and her newly arrived eccentric neighbor Vita, who emigrated from London with her husband Rollo. The friendship between the two women eventually sours as Sunday’s daughter Dolly begins to favor the relationship with Vita while neglecting her mother.
The Booker Prize judging panel stated the work was a “lyrical and poignant debut novel [that] offers a deft exploration of motherhood, vulnerability and the complexity of human relationships”.[1] James Smart, writing for The Guardian described the work as a “tightly focused story, set almost entirely in two neighbouring houses on a quiet street, that’s also a gleeful skewering of social codes, a raw portrait of family life and a revealing account of neurodivergence.”[2]
Biography[edit]
Lloyd-Barlow obtained her PhD in creative writing from the University of Kent, with Amy Sackville serving as her doctoral adviser.[3] Lloyd-Barlow’s debut novel, All the Little Bird-Hearts, was developed as a result of her PhD studies.[3] She became the first autistic author to be nominated for a Booker Prize with the novel’s longlisting in 2023.[4]
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
All the little bird-hearts DB118799
Lloyd-Barlow, Viktoria. Reading time: 9 hours, 18 minutes.
Read by Rose Akroyd.
Family
Psychological Fiction
“Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It’s 1988, before autism was widely diagnosed. Sunday has an old etiquette handbook that guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly, her clever, headstrong teenage daughter, now on the cusp of leaving their home in the Lake District of England. When the glamourous Vita and Rollo move in next door, the couple disarm Sunday with their charm, and proceed to deliciously break just about every rule in Sunday’s book. Soon they are spending loads of time together, and Sunday feels acknowledged like never before. But underneath Vita and Rollo’s allure lies something else, something darker. For Sunday has precisely what Vita has always wanted for herself: a daughter of her own.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Angel Fire” by Ron Franscell
John Polk did a good job narrating this story for NLS.
I’ve read other accounts of the atrocities in Vietnam and even the descriptions can be very disturbing. I can understand how being witness to a massacre could really blow your mind.
I thought the ending was a fitting way to wrap up the story.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ron Franscell (born January 29, 1957) is an American journalist, novelist and true crime writer best known for the true account The Darkest Night about the 1973 crimes against two childhood friends in the small community where Franscell grew up.
Franscell was raised in Casper, Wyoming, where he attended Kelly Walsh High School. He attended the US Naval Academy in Annapolis and later Casper College, where he was editor of the school newspaper (The Chinook). He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wyoming in 1979.
Franscell and his wife live in Placitas, Sandoval County, New Mexico. His wife, Mary Franscell, is a high school English teacher. He has two children.
Career[edit]
He worked as a journalist in Wyoming, New Mexico and California for Gannett newspapers from 1983–1989 and is a past president of the Wyoming Press Association.[1]
When Hurricane Rita made landfall in Texas, Franscell, managing editor at the time for the Beaumont Enterprise, rode out the storm with staff members in the newspaper’s building.[2][3]
In 2001, he was hired as a senior writer and columnist to write about the American West by the Denver Post, where he stayed two years. Following 9/11, he went on assignment for the Post to the Middle East. He worked for the Hearst Corporation from 2004–2008.
He was a judge for Knight Ridder newspaper’s Top Books of 2003[4] and the International Association of Crime Writers Hammett Prize in 2017.
In 2008, the book Fall: The Rape and Murder of Innocence in a Small Town, Franscell’s book about a crime against two young girls who were his next-door neighbors in Wyoming, was republished by St. Martin’s Press with the new title The Darkest Night.[5]
His book Delivered From Evil, for which he interviewed survivors of notorious mass killings in America, was released in January 2011. After the assassination attempt near Tucson, Arizona the same month of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords’, when 18 other people were shot, six of whom died, Franscell was asked to comment for media outlets about mass murders.[6][7]
True Crime Zine gave Franscell’s ninth book, The Crime Buff’s Guide to Outlaw Washington, DC released by Globe Pequot Press in September 2012, a five-star review.[8] The Huffington Post reviewed The Sourtoe Cocktail Club, about a father-and-son road trip before Franscell’s son Matt left for college.[9]
Franscell’s The Crime Buff’s Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania was released by Globe Pequot in October 2013.[10]
From NLS/BARD/LOC”
Angel fire: a novel DB49893
Franscell, Ron. Reading time: 11 hours, 19 minutes.
Read by John Polk.
Psychological Fiction
Twenty-four years after the reported death of his war correspondent brother Daniel, Cassidy McLeod receives a call that will forever change his life; Daniel has been found alive in Vietnam. When the much-changed man returns home, the joyful reunion soon turns somber. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 1998.
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A collection of stories depicting the life and times of a blind girl as she experiences the challenges of being a young child, teenager, wife and mother, and grandmother. As she grows up, some of Grace’s stories are happy, some trying, some enlightening, and a few journeys are sad, but they’re all the warp and weave of what goes into the tapestry of life we call Family.
The daily living skills demonstrated by the fictional characters in these stories and in the Resource List are valid, tried, and true.
“Dream it! Write it! Read it!”
— Kate Chamberlin, Educator/ author/Philanthropist, July, 2024
ISBN: 9798334756762
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Our Literary Universe: Anthology of Prose and Poetry From the Wayne Writers Guild
Edited by Kate Chamberlin
The Wayne Writers Guild has released its 7th anthology of prose and poetry. The creative works of Mert Bartels, Rita Goebert, Chuck Martin, Tim Piper, William Preston, Alex Reid, Jennifer Weykman, and contributing editor Kate Chamberlin will take you to Scotland, Ancient Rome, and Friday Harbor at San Juan Island; get sage advice from a Great-Grandmother and an old mountain climber; grow up with a farm boy as he emerges as a military man; experience sci-fi traces of humanity and a very human Main Street Christmas Memory; as well as, thoughts on the Vernal Equinox, pets, and letting go. There is something you’ll be thinking about long after you finish reading this anthology. “Our Literary Universe: Anthology of Prose and Poetry from the Wayne Writers Guild” edited by Kate Chamberlin is available on Amazon.com and Kindle.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Buck’s Best Dogs: Private Dog Training and Socialization Groups: a Comprehensive Approach to Training Your Dog” by Graham Buck
“Buck’s Best Dogs: Private Dog Training and Socialization Groups: a Comprehensive Approach to Training Your Dog” by Graham Buck
I was anxious to read Graham’s book, as I was one of his first two student at Guiding Eyes for the Blind in September, 1989. He trained me with my first guide god, Future Grace. She was a fabulous Golden Retriever guide dog and I realized this young man had a future in working with canines and people. I still use what he taught me although I’m on my 6th guide dog.
“Buck’s Best Dogs: Private Dog Training and Socialization Groups: a Comprehensive Approach to Training Your Dog.
Publisher: Xlibris Us
ISBN: 978-1664178649
Copyright © 2021 by Graham Buck.
Graham Buck, professional dog trainer, former guide dog mobility instructor, and published author. Graham is a devoted friend of the guide dog community.
One of his many zoom meetings with guide dog handlers, graduates, puppy raisers, and friend of the guide dog community was on July 17, 2024.
About the book from Graham:
“This book began by providing documents on different areas of dog training, behavior, and management to my clients. As I started to put documents together, I soon realized that a book was beginning to take shape. This is a starting point of building dog understanding with people and their dogs.”
The book is available from Amazon and Kindle:
About Graham Buck
Graham is a professional dog trainer with a comprehensive approach based on the east end of Long Island, New York. He grew up with dogs and has trained them for 36 years. Many of you may know Graham from his 31 years at Guiding Eyes for the Blind training guide dogs and their handlers. During that time, he came to truly appreciate the need for consistency and repetition in order to develop reliable dog behaviors.
As Graham says, “When training guide dogs it is very important to be able to proof the shaped behaviors in real life scenarios.” He currently helps people and their pet dogs accomplish their goals through his extensive training efforts. Buck has developed an online library of audio training files Below are links to a few of his audio files
Audio Files:
Senior dogs and puppies: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/co1rqtouyef20q0zij7nf/Senior-Dog-Puppy.m4a?rlkey=kv40ofi5ndjzxdmwe4d33pbx4&dl=0
Dog food and nutrition: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m0rspur3cheduj21wolxe/Dog-food-and-dog-nutrition.m4a?rlkey=ysgjeg8jj1kc8poze5iayee96&dl=0
you can read more about Graham’s background and work here: https://bucksbestdogs.com/about
Graham’s book is also available on BookShare, which where I downloaded it.
btw: guidedogbookclub@gmail.com has created a new email list serve just for the Guide Dog Book Club community. To subscribe to the list, send a blank email to guidedogbookclub+subscribe@groups.io. Or request an invitation to be sent to your inbox by emailing guidedogbookclub@gmail.com.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Dogwood Blossom: growing up Native American” by DeAnna Quietwater Noriega
“Dogwood Blossom: growing up Native American” by DeAnna Quietwater Noriega
Laurie Coiley Massing did a nice job of narrating this poignant book. The stories within this slim volume relate the bond the young Native American girl, named Dogwood Blossom, has with her family amidst poverty and prejudice.
I like that DeAnna included several of the low-cost gifts and toys she made for her younger brothers and family members.
I briefly met DeAnna when we were attending the American Council of the Blind conference in Rochester, NY. She is soft spoken and travels with a guide dog for the blind. She has also published a book about her many guide dogs and shared her stories with us during meetings of the Behind Our Eyes organization of writers with disabilities.
Bio from “Behind Our Eyes 2: A Second Look” anthology:
DeAnna Quietwater Noriega is half Apache and a quarter Chippewa, living in Fulton, Missouri. She has been a writer and story teller since childhood. She has had work accepted in four anthologies. Her writing has appeared in “Magnets and Ladders” and “Generations”, a native literature magazine.
From NLS/BARD/LOC:
Dogwood Blossom: growing up Native American DBC11736
Noriega, DeAnna Quietwater Reading time: 1 hour, 15 minutes.
Laurie Coiley Massing A production of Perkins Library, Perkins School for the Blind.
Biography of Persons with Disabilities
Family
In Dogwood Blossom, the author invokes a simpler time and how it was growing up in a world that didn’t always accept her. Poverty and oppression are no match for the strong bonds among the members of this hardworking and loving family. The life lessons here will resonate with readers young and old. Adult. Unrated.
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