A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection - Softcover

Josip Novakovich; Ana Menendez; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Laila Lalami; Rashad Majid; Carolyn Alessio; Diane Lefer; Various Authors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976717735 ISBN 13: 9780976717737

Publisher: OV Books, 2008

Synopsis

Thirty acclaimed writers of international fiction explore the stranger in tales of cultural clashes and bonds. These stories of disparate experience travel beyond politics and multicultural manners to become an essential discussion of otherness.

Contributors include Nathan Englander, Laila Lalami, Ana Menendez, Josip Novakovich, Wanda Coleman, Tony d'Souza, Samrat Upadhyay, Mary Yukari Waters, Luis Alfaro, and Amanda Eyre Ward, as well as other accomplished writers from Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, some published for the first time in the United States.

About this title

About the Author:

Stacy Bierlein is a founding editor of OV Books and served as a contributing editor to the award-winning literary magazine Other Voices. Her current fiction, essays, and book reviews appear in various publications, including Standards: An International Journal of Multicultural Studies. She lives in Southern California.

Aimee Liu is the author of the bestselling international novels Flash House, Cloud Mountain, and Face; as well as the memoirs, Solitaire, and Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders. Her work has been translated into more than eight languages. She teaches at Goddard College's Port Townsend MFA Program in Creative Writing.

From Booklist:

In the waning days of the cold war, when Ronald Reagan challenged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down that wall, when the AIDS virus was more rumor than scourge, and when disaffected youth the world over were searching for ways to either disappear or make a difference, a rebellious Australian youth jumps at his sister’s unexpected invitation to visit her in the Soviet Union. Fin promises Darcy she’ll provide the airfare if he agrees to surreptitiously transport a leather money belt through international customs. Despite Fin’s protest that everything is on the up-and-up, Darcy knows his sister has become involved in something nefarious—and quite frankly, it excites the hell out of him. Ignoring her warnings to maintain a low profile while in the country, Darcy embarks on a dangerous liaison with the son of a high-ranking government official. Vibrant with the discordant images of political repression and smoldering sexuality, Francis’ book ethereally transports readers to a preternatural time where nothing and no one are as they seem. --Carol Haggas

About this edition

• Publisher: OV Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0976717735
• ISBN 13: 9780976717737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Stacy Bierlein