Call Me Athena - Colby Cedar Smith 电子书mobi+epub
Product details
Reading age : 14 years and up
Grade level : 7 - 9
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing (August 17, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 576 pages
ISBN-10 : 1524865605
ISBN-13 : 978-1524865603
Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit Hardcover – August 17, 2021
by Colby Cedar Smith (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Call-Me-Athena-Girl-Detroit/dp/1524865605
Product details
Reading age : 14 years and up
Grade level : 7 - 9
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing (August 17, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 576 pages
ISBN-10 : 1524865605
ISBN-13 : 978-1524865603
This enchanting novel in verse captures one young woman’s struggle for independence, equality, and identity as the daughter of Greek and French immigrants in tumultuous 1930s Detroit.
Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit is a beautifully written novel in verse loosely based on author Colby Cedar Smith’s paternal grandmother. The story follows Mary as the American-born daughter of Greek and French immigrants living in Detroit in the 1930s, creating a historically accurate portrayal of life as an immigrant during the Great Depression, hunger strikes, and violent riots.
Mary lives in a tiny apartment with her immigrant parents, her brothers, and her twin sister, and she questions why her parents ever came to America. She yearns for true love, to own her own business, and to be an independent, modern American woman—much to the chagrin of her parents, who want her to be a “good Greek girl.”
Mary’s story is peppered with flashbacks to her parents’ childhoods in Greece and northern France; their stories connect with Mary as they address issues of arranged marriage, learning about independence, and yearning to grow beyond one’s own culture. Though Call Me Athena is written from the perspective of three profoundly different narrators, it has a wide-reaching message: It takes courage to fight for tradition and heritage, as well as freedom, love, and equality.
About the Author
Colby Cedar Smith grew up in the Midwest, and she still dreams of the cold northern woods and the smell of lake water. She holds degrees from Colorado College and Harvard University. She has been a finalist for the The Iowa Review Poetry Award, the New Letters Poetry Prize, and the Colorado Prize for Poetry, and a semifinalist for the 92Y “Discovery” Boston Review Poetry Prize. In 2020, Colby received a NJ Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry. Her poems have been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Harper Palate, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Potomac Review, Saranac Review, and The Iowa Review. Colby lives with her husband and two children in Hopewell, New Jersey, and teaches creative writing at the Arts Council of Princeton.You can read more of her work at
www.colbycedarsmith.com.
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