Love in a Global Village: A Celebration of Intercultural Families in the Midwest
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (920 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0877457409 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. The book's underlying message is that these relationships thrive because each partner has to work harder to overcome their differences. With a Valentine's Day pub date, this book may find its way to a few lovers, although a box of candy might be more effective. The last entry, for example, is a wonderfully understated account of a Jewish woman who married an Afghan student in Chicago in 1945 and went to live with him in Kabul, raising their two children as good Muslims. On the other hand, there are one or two accounts in this collection that make it worth wading through the goo. From
In praise of diversity, this is an account of the triumphs of 15 intercultural families and of the perseverance of their relationships in midwestern America. Four sections follow lives from courtship, through marriage to raising children and the preservation of culture and traditions.
"Realism and Intercultural Marriage" according to Paul R. Spickard. Jessie Grearson and Lauren Smith have written a fine companion to their earlier book SWAYING, which was a compendium of writings by people in international, interracial, and intercultural marriages. This time, in LOVE IN A GLOBAL VILLAGE, Smith and Grearson are the authors, telling the stories of fifteen intermarried couples they have interviewed. Cynics (such as the anonymous author of an unfortunate review in Publisher's Weekly) may wish to see conflict, dysfunc. "I really liked this book because" according to Jon Anderson. it was, for me, like a book of travelers' tales, about a land I myself am about to enter. Instead of dry academic posturing, "Love In A Global Village" led me on a dozen journeys taken, before me, by people with whom I could relate. I had actually met one of them, I found, a woman in Evanston, Shirlee Taraki, who married a man from Kabul and moved to Afghanistan. I knew something of her story, but I found out a lot more by reading Jessie Grearson and Lauren Smith'