I Give You Half the Road
I Give You Half the Road

Author: Carol Spindel

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2021-02-22

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0299330508

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In Ivory Coast, the farewell “I give you half the road” is an expression of hospitality, urging a departing guest to come back again. After their first stay in a welcoming rural community in 1981, Carol Spindel and her husband did just that. Over the course of decades, they built a house and returned frequently, deepening their relationships with neighbors. Once considered the most stable country in West Africa, Ivory Coast was split by an armed rebellion in 2002 and endured a decade of instability and a violent conflict. Spindel provides an intimate glimpse into this turbulent period by weaving together the daily lives and paths of five neighbors. Their stories reveal Ivorians determined to reunite a divided country through reliance on mutual respect and obligation even while power-hungry politicians pursued xenophobic and anti-immigrant platforms for personal gain. Illuminating democracy as a fragile enterprise that must be continually invented and reinvented, I Give You Half the Road emphasizes the importance of connection, generosity, and forgiveness.

Half Dead Road Kill
Half Dead Road Kill

Author: Paul Donohue

Publisher: Animal Media Group, LLC

Published: 2014-09-23

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0991255046

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Half Dead Roadkill is an endless exploration into the unusual we may all see, but have never observed like author, Paul Donohue. Readers are thrown into a story about guns and those that love them a little too much and weave through a humorous, heart-pounding chance through the streets of San Francisco. They are also taken into relationships that range from under cooked eggs to a couple holding onto who they used to be to a jog that turns into an unexpected meeting and an even further unexpected afternoon.

The Half Empty Glass on Cedarcrest Road
The Half Empty Glass on Cedarcrest Road

Author: Caroline Christian

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2013-03-18

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1481723375

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So you tell someone you're having a bad day and they respond with "Oh, don't worry. Things will get better." Don't you just want to haul off and smack them? What you really want to do is take their happy-doodle attitude and stick it where the sun don't shine. Well, let them live in my shoes for just one week, let alone seven years. Seven years living at this house on Cedarcrest Road was no paradise. I was always someone who looked on the bright side of everything. I always looked at the 'glass as being half full' until I lived on Cedarcrest Road.