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In Place Ser.: This Way Back by Joanna Eleftheriou (2020, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWest Virginia University Press

ISBN-101949199665

ISBN-139781949199666

eBay Product ID (ePID)16038502856

Product Key Features

Number of Pages264 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameThis Way Back

Publication Year2020

SubjectPersonal Memoirs, LGBT

TypeTextbook

AuthorJoanna Eleftheriou

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography

SeriesIn Place Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2020-011864

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Intimate and a touch mournful, most powerfully so when the author writes about her sexuality. . . . These essays reveal an impassioned and hard-fought sense of self and place." Kirkus Reviews (starred review), "Joanna Eleftheriou's collection This Way Back offers a series of essays that both stand alone and form a larger narrative about immigration, bicultural identity, sexual orientation, and the pull of a landscape. These lovely and moving essays are nostalgic, complex, and thoughtful, with sentences you will underline and return to and that will sear you with their beauty." Sonya Huber, author of Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System

Dewey Decimal818.603

Table Of ContentThe Rope of Desires Of Acacia and Maple Your Schedule Depends on the Sky The Actress Who Isn't Acting She and I Ithacas The Temple of Zeus The Other Side Wild Honey, Locust Beans Unsent Letter to My Father Shopping for Story Dancing Greek Out Cyprus Pride Inheritance Law Without Goodbyes Epilogue: Moonlight Elegy Acknowledgments Notes

Synopsis"Winning and contemplative." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Going back to her ancestral homeland, a Greek American girl discovers she is a lesbian in love with God, so her questions about home and belonging will not be easily answered. This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust. The book avows a Greek-Cypriot-American lesbian's existence by documenting its scenes: reenacting an 1829 mass suicide by jumping off a school stage onto gym mats at St. Nicholas, harvesting carobs on ancestral land, purchasing UNESCO-protected lace, marching in the island's first gay pride parade, visiting Cyprus's occupied north against a dying father's wish, and pruning geraniums, cypress trees, and jasmine after her father grew too weak to lift the shears. While the author's life binds the essays in This Way Back into what reads like a memoir, the book questions memoir's conventional boundaries between the individual and her community, and between political and personal loss, the human and the environment, and the living and the dead., Dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust. The book avows a Greek-Cypriot-American lesbian's existence by documenting its scenes.

LC Classification NumberPS3605.L378