The Water Between Us

by Shara McCallum

Book Overview

1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner. The Water Between Us is a poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the exile's struggle to reconcile the disparate and often conflicting influences of the homeland and the adopted country. The book also centers on other kinds of physical and emotional distances: those between mothers and daughters, those created by being of mixed racial descent, and those between colonizers and the colonized. Despite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822957108
• ISBN13: 9780822957102
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.7"