Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul - Softcover

Cannady, Laurie Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989753298 ISBN 13: 9780989753296

Publisher: Etruscan Press, 2015

Synopsis

Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul is a coming-of-age memoir that chronicles a young girl's journey through abuse and impoverishment. The effusive narration descends into the depths of personal and sexual degradation, perpetual hunger for food, safety and survival. While moving through gritty exposés of poverty, abuse, and starvation, Crave renders a continuing search for sustenance that simply will not die.
Laurie Jean Cannady is most recognizable through her voice. Lyrical and august, yet strangely intimate, her lucid memory for the texture of daily existence weaves the reader into the fabric of the story. We discover that the most slender threads bind the strongest.

It is no surprise this memoir is a narrative about a victim who becomes a survivor. Cannady is assertive, motivational, and unafraid to reach her target audience: women, African Americans, high-school students, college students, survivors of physical and sexual abuse, veterans, people raised by single parents, and folks who are living in or have lived through impoverishment.
Laurie Jean Cannady, a professor of English at Lock Haven University, spends much of her time encouraging students to realize their true potential. She is a consummate champion of women's issues, veterans' issues, and issues affecting underprivileged youth. Cannady resides in central Pennsylvania with Chico Cannady and their three children.

About this title

From the Author:

"Cannady writes about the interlocking effects of poverty and abuse in a way that readers will instantly recognize as vibrant, with the authenticity of true experience rendered bravely... Her formative years of having too little, paradoxically nurtured her keen writer's eye and generous spirit so prominently on display in Crave. This is a deeply affecting debut memoir."
-- Sue William Silverman, The Pat Boone Fan Club

From the Back Cover:

"What an extraordinary memoir! Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul is Laurie Jean Cannady's intense yet inspiring story of overcoming the terrors and traumas that befall a young black woman on her hard-won path to selfhood and self-love. Daughter to a woman who "wore the same pain" of heartaches and history of abusive relationships, Cannady's triumph is in recognizing that she "still had strength to hold [herself] together while so broken." The light at the end of this fierce and uncompromising book is nourishment to the spirit."
--Rigoberto González, author of Butterfly Boy and Unpeopled Eden

About this edition

• Publisher: Etruscan Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0989753298
• ISBN 13: 9780989753296
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384