Not for everyday use
a memoir
By Elizabeth Nunez
"Not for everyday use" was published by Akashic Books in 2014 - New York, it has 256 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Not for everyday use” Metadata:
- Title: Not for everyday use
- Author: Elizabeth Nunez
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 256
- Publisher: Akashic Books
- Publish Date: 2014
- Publish Location: New York
“Not for everyday use” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ College teachers - African American novelists - Immigrants - Trinidadian Americans - Biography - Racism - African american authors - Women authors - Authors, biography - Authors, american - Women, united states, biography - Literary - People of Color - LITERARY CRITICISM - American - General - Personal Memoirs
- People: Elizabeth Nuñez - Elizabeth Nunez
- Places: United States
- Time: 20th century - 21st century
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 256 pages
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL28317160M - OL20905478W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 858603200
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2013956048
- ISBN-13: 9781617752346 - 9781617752339
- ISBN-10: 1617752347 - 1617752339
- All ISBNs: 1617752347 - 1617752339 - 9781617752346 - 9781617752339
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"Not for everyday use" Description:
The Open Library:
Tracing the four days from the moment she gets the call that every immigrant fears to the burial of her mother, Elizabeth Nunez tells the haunting story of her lifelong struggle to cope with the consequences of the "sterner stuff" of her parents' ambitions for their children and her mother's seemingly unbreakable conviction that displays of affection are not for everyday use. But Nunez sympathizes with her parents, whose happiness is constrained by the oppressive strictures of colonialism, by the Catholic Church's prohibition of artificial birth control which her mother obeys, terrified by the threat of eternal damnation (her mother gets pregnant fourteen times: nine live births and five miscarriages which almost kill her), and by what Malcolm Gladwell refers to as the "privilege of skin color" in his mother's Caribbean island homeland where "the brown-skinned classes ... came to fetishize their lightness." Still, a fierce love holds this family together, and the passionate, though complex, love Nunez's parents have for each other will remind readers of the passion between the aging lovers in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. Written in exquisite prose by a writer the New York Times Book Review calls "a master at pacing and plotting," Not for Everyday Use is a page-turner that readers will find impossible to put down. Nunez ponders the cultural, racial, familial, social, and personal experiences that led to what she ultimately understands was a deeply loving union between her parents.
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