The arc and the sediment

Gretta Bitsilly, gin-steeped mother of two and self-proclaimed expert at standing outside the margins of ethnicity and peering in, has been all but eclipsed by the world that eludes her--as a wife, a writer, a skeptic in "the other land of Zion," Utah. Gretta has set off to Fort Defiance,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allen-Yazzie, Christine Diane (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press c2007.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430344106719
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • The Plan
  • The Plan, Amended
  • New Breasts = New Bras
  • To Food
  • Dear James
  • You Got to Cut Its Throat
  • Hello, Please Help Me
  • How to Make the World a Better Place
  • Just So You're All Right Now
  • All That Matters
  • The Arc and the Sediment
  • A Sore Cursing
  • Hello, Kitty
  • Fruit Sauce Should Always Be Served on the Side
  • The Curiously Multifaceted Nature of Victimization
  • The Wavering Red Light
  • An Unspeakable Shine
  • Entering the Third Dimension
  • Forward, Anywhere
  • What Becomes of Virginia Dare
  • In the Vat Lies the Fruit
  • Second Place Is Pretty Good, Considering
  • A Little Reluctance Goes a Long Way
  • I Want Some Cookies
  • Who's Your Butterfly?
  • In Drills and Bursts
  • Rubber Hatchets
  • I'm Saying If
  • I'm Saying When
  • Do You Want to Save Changes?
  • As a Matter of Spite
  • Keeping It Out
  • Words for Later
  • And Also It Goes Back to That Whistle
  • They'll Eat My Irises
  • Or What
  • The Image Lasts All the Way Across
  • Afterword: Gretta's Alternative Twelve Steps to Sobriety
  • Acknowledgments.