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From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:59:06 -0700
I encourage everyone to take a look at:
Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me, A Novel by Lurline Wailana McGregor i s the American Indian Library Association (AILA) choice for the Best Young Adult Book. Words cross over. Sometimes they swim over. Between cultures, between g enerations.
This book swims between cultures, between interest groups, and across the Pacific to issues com mon to many. What does one preserve, respect, retain and honor?
Lurline McGregor is of several cultures. In her book she speaks to “the dilemmas we face in making choices that ultimately assure our survival.” From a revi ew by Nainoa Thompson
To create this book Lurline worked with Joy Harjo, of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nations, a musici an (she composes, sings, and plays both saxophone and flute), an acclaimed po et, and author of many books, most recently, For a Girl Becoming. Joy Harjo worked wi th McGregor to develop the screenplay that eventually became the novel, Between the Deep Blue Sea an d Me.
Joy Harjo lives part of each year in the high desert of the Southwest. When she is not in the dese rt, she is likely canoeing in the Pacific, her “other home,” Hawaii, where is shar es the love of ocean with the author. Joy Harjo comments:
“Ultimately we are all indigenous.... Though this is a particularly Hawaiian story, the issues, characters, and sensibilitie s are similar to indigenous people all over the world."
A century ago Jung wrote about his concept of collective unconscious. Perhaps all words, the thoughts and feelings within them, become part o f the dimensions of the universe which each generation journeys to perceive.
Barack Obama wrote recently in Newsweek, January 25, 2010 (page 24) in reference to the suffering of so many in Ha iti:
“Time and chance happens to us all. But it is also in these moments, w hen we are brought face to face with our own fragility, that we rediscover our commo n humanity. We look into the eyes of another and see ourselves.”
Words cross over. In her book, Lurline McGregor, draws the reader into looking at the dilemmas of others and seeing ourselves.
Available from Kamehameha Publishing (yes, a small press, as Kathleen m entioned). At their website is an extensive interview with the author.
www.nancyboflood.com
Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons, Children's Choice, ALA Notable Social Science Book, Arizona Book of the Year Warriors in the Crossfire NEWYoung Adult novel set on the island of Saipan during WWII Toni Morrison, “The best art is political.”
Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-3721 FAX: 608-262-4933
horning_at_education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:59:06 -0700
I encourage everyone to take a look at:
Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me, A Novel by Lurline Wailana McGregor i s the American Indian Library Association (AILA) choice for the Best Young Adult Book. Words cross over. Sometimes they swim over. Between cultures, between g enerations.
This book swims between cultures, between interest groups, and across the Pacific to issues com mon to many. What does one preserve, respect, retain and honor?
Lurline McGregor is of several cultures. In her book she speaks to “the dilemmas we face in making choices that ultimately assure our survival.” From a revi ew by Nainoa Thompson
To create this book Lurline worked with Joy Harjo, of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nations, a musici an (she composes, sings, and plays both saxophone and flute), an acclaimed po et, and author of many books, most recently, For a Girl Becoming. Joy Harjo worked wi th McGregor to develop the screenplay that eventually became the novel, Between the Deep Blue Sea an d Me.
Joy Harjo lives part of each year in the high desert of the Southwest. When she is not in the dese rt, she is likely canoeing in the Pacific, her “other home,” Hawaii, where is shar es the love of ocean with the author. Joy Harjo comments:
“Ultimately we are all indigenous.... Though this is a particularly Hawaiian story, the issues, characters, and sensibilitie s are similar to indigenous people all over the world."
A century ago Jung wrote about his concept of collective unconscious. Perhaps all words, the thoughts and feelings within them, become part o f the dimensions of the universe which each generation journeys to perceive.
Barack Obama wrote recently in Newsweek, January 25, 2010 (page 24) in reference to the suffering of so many in Ha iti:
“Time and chance happens to us all. But it is also in these moments, w hen we are brought face to face with our own fragility, that we rediscover our commo n humanity. We look into the eyes of another and see ourselves.”
Words cross over. In her book, Lurline McGregor, draws the reader into looking at the dilemmas of others and seeing ourselves.
Available from Kamehameha Publishing (yes, a small press, as Kathleen m entioned). At their website is an extensive interview with the author.
www.nancyboflood.com
Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons, Children's Choice, ALA Notable Social Science Book, Arizona Book of the Year Warriors in the Crossfire NEWYoung Adult novel set on the island of Saipan during WWII Toni Morrison, “The best art is political.”
Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-3721 FAX: 608-262-4933
horning_at_education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
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