I Dwell in Possibility: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558612807 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Midwest Book Review said Superbly presented and absorbing autobiography.. Now in a newly revised and expanded second edition, I Dwell In Possibility: A Memoir by retired educator Toni McNaron is the personal history and testimony of a woman who grew up witness to southern apartheid in Alabama and who endured a long internal battle in search of her artistic and sexual identity. The thoughts, life history, and spiritually evolutionary experiences of an award-winning writer and educator make for a riveting, in
From Library Journal As a lesbian coming into womanhood in the 1950s and starting her career in the 1960s, McNaron writes movingly about the years she spent closeted about her sexuality and unable to make real connections with friends and lovers in an environment and at a time when homosexuality was still a taboo subject. Sinai Medical Ctr. Lib., New YorkCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. . She hints throughout the book about her growing alcoholism but never really states that there was a connection between her having to hide her lesbianism and her need to drink. However, the day McNaro
This brave and lyrical memoir is a powerful social document as well as an account of emotional, psychological, and intellectual self-actualization over four decadesfrom McNaron’s childhood encounters with segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, through her first days of teaching and her fear of exposure as a lesbian and an alcoholic, to her recovery and coming out.