My Name is Child of God...Not Those People: A First-person Look at Poverty - Softcover

Dinsmore, Julia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806656247 ISBN 13: 9780806656243

Verlag: Augsburg Fortress, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known Call Me Child of God ... Not Those People. The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholic working-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, draws together the experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church and music in her life, and the many remarkable people who populated her life and the lives of her family. The author describes economic hardship and social challenges as being as "regular as the turning seasons in my coming up years," and refers to her life in poverty as the "soil of my art." Through her stories and reflections, Julia Dinsmore puts a face on poverty and challenges readers to answer God's call to respond to poverty and its effects.

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Julia K. Dinsmore is a freelance writer, storyteller, and singer/songwriter. As a child she lived in poverty and as an adult she has found herself living below the poverty line. Her riveting stories, songs, and poems reveal what it is like to be poor in America. Articulate, clear-visioned, and endowed with a marvelous sense of justice and humor, she makes frequent presentations to college classes, church groups, and civic organizations. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Augsburg Fortress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0806656247
• ISBN 13: 9780806656243
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar