The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

✍ Scribed by Ginsberg, Allen

• Book ID: 109891875
• Publisher: Grove Atlantic
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: ar-SA
• Weight: 640 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780802126498

✦ Synopsis

The third literary anthology in the series that has been called "ambitious" (O Magazine) and "strikingly international" (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home , continues to push boundaries in diversity and scope, with stunning new pieces from emerging writers and literary luminaries alike.
As the refugee crisis continues to convulse whole swathes of the world and there are daily updates about the rise of homelessness in different parts of America, the idea and meaning of home is at the forefront of many people's minds. Viet Thanh Nguyen harks to an earlier age of displacement with a haunting piece of fiction about the middle passage made by those fleeing Vietnam after the war. Rabih Alameddine brings us back to the present, as he leaves his mother's Beirut apartment to connect with Syrian refugees who are building a semblance of normalcy, and even beauty, in the face of so much loss. Home can be a complicated place to claim, because of race--the...