Trouble seems to seek out Delores, but she never backs down from a challenge. From her humble beginnings as a sweet Georgia peach, to her rise to late-in-life reality television stardom, Delores always faces everything head-on with a headstrong will. Discover the shocking truth about her trials and tribulations along the way: How she dealt with spousal abuse by giving as good as she got. How she suffered the loss of a child from a forced abortion. How she nearly died in a car wreck that rendered one of her children catatonic. Life might give her lemons, but Delores makes the best lemonade this side of the Mason-Dixon line, then sells that lemonade back to life for a large profit!
Mema's house is in the poor barrio Nezahualcoyotl, a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City where people survive with the help of family, neighbors, and friends. This house is a sanctuary for a group of young, homosexual men who meet to do what they can't do openly at home. They chat, flirt, listen to music, and smoke marijuana. Among the group are sex workers and transvestites with high heels, short skirts, heavy make-up, and voluminous hairstyles; and their partners, young, bisexual men, wearing T-shirts and worn jeans, short hair, and maybe a mustache. Mema, an AIDS educator and the leader of this gang of homosexual men, invited Annick Prieur, a European sociologist, to meet the community and to conduct her fieldwork at his house. Prieur lived there for six months between 1988 and 1991, and she has kept in touch for more than eight years. As Prieur follows the transvestites in their daily activities—at their work as prostitutes or as hairdressers, at night having fun in the streets and in discos—on visits with their families and even in prisons, a fascinating story unfolds of love, violence, and deceit. She analyzes the complicated relations between the effeminate homosexuals, most of them transvestites, and their partners, the masculine-looking bisexual men, ultimately asking why these particular gender constructions exist in the Mexican working classes and how they can be so widespread in a male-dominated society—the very society from which the term machismo stems. Expertly weaving empirical research with theory, Prieur presents new analytical angles on several concepts: family, class, domination, the role of the body, and the production of differences among men. A riveting account of heroes and moral dilemmas, community gossip and intrigue, Mema's House, Mexico's City offers a rich story of a hitherto unfamiliar culture and lifestyle.
Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease.
"Thirteen-year-old Ellie finds herself faced with first love and learning to let go as her friendship with best friend Bert starts to turn into something more, and her beloved grandfather loses his battle with Alzheimer's disease"--
Amber Moon, starts her autobiography from her youngest age of two about the different abuses she endured while growing up through her adolescence years into her teenage years. Throughout the novel, she expresses the actions and emotions how she overcame her abuse in hopes to help others. A nice day out. I was only 4. My brother Tim and I had been home with my dad all week while mother has been working at the hospital taking care of patients. She's a LPN. After breakfast my dad came out back and told us we were going to the "icebox" to go fish with Rob today and we needed to get inside and get ready. Oh how I can remember my brother being so happy. Me...I felt panic. As I knew this was going to be a day of drinking and torture as it always was when my dad and his friend are together. We had gotten to the sink hole of a fishing place, it was back behind a lot of trees. I can still remember the smell to this day and how dirty it was. I often wondered why we ate the fish from that place. The water was always filled with trash. Yes, refrigerators too. Yet everyone in Hornell fished there. My dad set up the fishing rods on the bank and told me to sit on the ground that I wasn't good enough to sit in a chair, they are used only for men. As I watched my father, Rob and my brother all sit down in one. I sat in a pile of muddy grass patch that had trash in it. Crying, my dad slapped me across the face and asked me, "Do you want another?" As he raised his hand over his head. I curled up my legs and hugged them close to my chest in hopes I would not get hit again. Instead he pulls out his Polaroid from the back seat of his truck and takes a picture. As he yells, "Come on you little pussy."
Brothers Yaden and Yoel are thrilled to find out that Mommy is having a baby! When the boys discover how long they must wait before the baby is born, their excitement turns into frustration. Will the boys learn patience as they wait, wait, wait, 4 Baby Y?
When Breckin Henderson returned to her hometown of Parker, Oklahoma, she didn't expect her football coaching husband to leave her for the head cheerleader as soon as she walked across the graduation stage. Never one to run, Breckin remained in Parker, but picking up the pieces of her shattered life proved more difficult than she could ever imagine. For residents of Parker, Griff was the man who came home with a broken heart when the love of his life was killed in a tragic motorcycle accident. The grandson who drives his eighty-nine year old grandmother grocery shopping each week. The bartender who took over the bar his grandfather owned and subsequently took his grandfather's place listening to the town's troubles. Both Breckin and Griff's hearts have been broken once before. As they grow closer, will they be able to put their fears and insecurities aside and try to discover love again? Or will their hearts be too broken to ever completely mend?
Savannah Greensboro is is a 10 month long relationship with Tyrone Drek. She has tried to be an understanding and considerate girlfriend.but she thinks that She is losing Tyrone to other women. She tries a love spell that she is assured will make Tyrone fall in love with her, but Asmar Akbar, a man that she met at an herbal store, is showing signs that he loves her, too. Now Savannah has both men fawning for her affection and needs to break one of the men from the love spellbut will she make the right man fall out of love?
