Beth J. Harpaz
FILE - Tourists walk around the grounds at Ellis Island, on April 29, 2015, in New York. The location is featured in a collection of mini-essays by American writers published online by the Frommer s guidebook company about places they believe helped shape and define America. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) December 23, 2020 - 8:03 AM
Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from coastal Oregon and Solvang, California, to Ellis Island and New Hampshireâs Black Heritage Trail.
The resulting collection of mini-essays, including contributions from memoirist Cheryl Strayed, novelist Jodi Picoult, humorist David Sedaris and activist Gloria Steinem, was organized by Frommerâs, the travel guidebook company. The collection can be read for free online.
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Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from coastal Oregon and Solvang, California, to Ellis Island and New Hampshire’s Black Heritage Trail.
The resulting collection of mini-essays, including contributions from memoirist Cheryl Strayed, novelist Jodi Picoult, humorist David Sedaris and activist Gloria Steinem, was organized by Frommer’s, the travel guidebook company. The collection can be read for free online.
The compilation is designed to be food for thought rather than an invitation to hit the road.
With COVID-19 cases surging in many parts of the country, “we don’t want people to use these essays as the basis for travel until doing so is safe once again,” Pauline Frommer, who heads the guidebook company, told the AP. “We hope this list will be a spur to future travel, but we also just wanted it to be
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THE WANDERING PALESTINIAN
242 pp. bhc Press. $25.95 hardcover, $15.95 paperback, $7.95 ebook.
Anan Ameri’s recently released memoir “The Wandering Palestinian” is beautifully written in the tradition of Arab story telling. Its humorous and poignant vignettes travel the reader to Beirut, Detroit, Washington DC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Jerusalem. It successfully interweaves the forty-year personal narrative of a free spirited Arab woman who arrives in the USA in 1974, with the larger issues of migration, racism, sexism, and institution building.
Readers will gain an intimate insight into Palestinian and the Arab-American communities’ efforts and aspirations to find their rightful place in the American mosaic. And Ameri includes personal stories of love and a failed marriage (to the author of this review, many years ago), struggle with depression and therapy, as well as activism and grassroots organizing that led to the creation of the Palestine Aid Society of America i