Notes from No Mans Land: American Essays - Eula Biss
Category: Anthology
Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck
Tags: Anthology, Misc. Non-fiction, Literature
Notes from No Mans Land American Essays By Eula Biss Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck Length 6 hrs and 12 mins Unabridged Audiobook Release date 01-11-13 Language English Publisher Audible Studios, Publishers Summary, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity, In a book that begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies, Eula Biss explores race in America. Her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays - teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting for an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicagos most diverse neighborhood. As Biss moves across the country from New York to California to the Midwest, her essays move across time from biblical Babylon to the freedmans schools of Reconstruction to a J
