Speaking in Tongues: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 106, Part 4) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781606180648)

Raised in a Lebanese mountain village, Fedwa Malti-Douglas came to America at the age of 13. After a rich academic career, Prof. Malti-Douglas turned her attention to other muses, publishing a novel in 1998, and poetry (incl. a chapbook of visual poetry). Fedwa's honors include the 1997 Kuwait Prize in Arts & Letters, & the Nat. Humanities Medal for 2014, presented by Pres. Barack Obama. This volume tells the story of a family torn apart by divorce, death, and exile, & reunited by an inherited form of muscular dystrophy. It has been praised as "a memoir of unpitying clarity," "deeply moving & arresting," which "crosses landscapes of sadness, of happiness, of pain & peace, of alienation & acceptance, toward a healing enlargement of the soul." Color photos.

Author: Fedwa Malti-Douglas
ISBN-10: 1606180649
ISBN-13: 9781606180648
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2016
Pages: 245
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63d