"A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...

"Spring semester is here and Maggie is killing it! Her grades are up, she's loving outdoor track and field, and being a seventh grader means the awesome spring break trip to St. Augustine is almost here. She can't wait for her first overnight trip away from her overprotective parents, lovesick sister, and busybody abuela. Nothing will get in the way of Maggie having the best time ever with her two best friends, Zoey and Julian! But all of Maggie's...

Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents¿́¿citizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe¿́¿were sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise...

Tommy is a real-life 40-year-old virgin. He also still lives with his traditional Christian Korean parents under a curfew. He's never been on a date, kissed a girl, or cooked a meal, nor does he own a personal bank account. He's been suppressed and pampered his whole life, leaving him with almost no adult skills. For years, Tommy pleads with his unlikely best friend Nem, a 6'9 former pro basketball player turned comedian to "help him with the ladies"....

In the 1960s a number of gifted writers--some at the peak of their careers, others newcomers--reimagined American crime fiction through formal experimentation and the exploration of audacious new subjects and themes. This is the second of two volumes gathering the best of their work, nine novels of astonishing variety and inventiveness that pulse with the energies of that turbulent, transformative decade. In Margaret Millar's The Fiend (1964) a nine-year-old...

Poems rising from and returning to Bukowski's personal experiences reflect people, objects, places, and events of the external world, and reflects on them, on their way out and back.