American Woman: Lost and Found in Oklahoma
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0966146018 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Pam Fleischaker is a freelance writer, columnist and contributing editor to Oklahoma City's alternative weekly newspaper, The Oklahoma Gazette. She has been a political and media consultant for several presidential and congressional candidates
For more than ten years, Pam Fleischaker's fiesty attitude, dry humor, and provocative observations have brought smiles to progressive Oklahomans who cheered her onward in her battle against backward thinking. This book collects the some of the best of her essays.
This collection of essays is a gem! Pam Fleischaker writes with the savvy of an insider and the compassion of an outsider. Whether she is writing about her own typically tortured adolescence, which included not being asked to the high school prom, the challenge and joys of mothering teenagers, or Oklahoma's conservative political climate, her clarity and sharp wit are cutting-edge. These essays are engaging slices of life, most of which address themes with which we can all identify, naming issues with which many of us struggle. They are fun to read, accessible and touching.. A Customer said Funny, entertaining and insightful. This collection of essays is a thoroughyl engrossing read. MS. Fleischaker's observations of family and raising children are funny and poignant, and you don't have to share the author's decidedly leftist politics to appreciate her insight and passion. This is definitely worth checking out, especially if you live in (or are from) the Southwest.
It is a gift to yourself. -- Susan Estrich, political analyst for Fox News and author of Sex & Power. You can marvel at the love in this book. Pam Fleischaker gets it