Sleep in Me (American Lives) - Softcover

Pineda, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803243413 ISBN 13: 9780803243415

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2012

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Against the backdrop of his teenage sister’s car accident—in which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends—Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica’s sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy.

A prize-winning poet’s account of the irreparable damage and the new understanding that tragedy brings to his Filipino American family, Pineda’s book is a remarkable story maneuvering between childhood memories of his sister cheerleading and moments of monitoring her in a coma and changing her adult diapers. Pineda adeptly navigates between these moments of idyllic youth and heartbreaking sadness. Vivid and lyrical, his story is an exploration of what it means to live deeply with tragedy and of the impact such a story can have on a boy’s journey to manhood.

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Jon Pineda is an assistant professor of English at the University of Mary Washington and teaches in the MFA creative writing program at Queens University of Charlotte. He is the author of Apology: A Novel and three books of poetry, most recently Little Anodynes. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803243413
• ISBN 13: 9780803243415
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 153
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