Three Days in Damascus by Kim Schultz

Three Days in Damascus by Kim Schultz

Paul Wolfenthal is a peculiar thirteen-year-old kid grappling with the absurdities of his young Bronx life, circa 1960. He visits the dead, hears voices in his head, despises Richard Nixon, is infatuated with his Marilyn Monroe look-alike math teacher, and is a choice victim for the neighborhood's sadistic bully. And then Paul really starts running into trouble.

Paul is, in fact, a kid in search of heroes, alive and otherwise, and finds them in John Kennedy and Harry Houdini, both of whom cross into his life. But these are strange and even dangerous times. Hovering in the shadows are the demons that haunt Paul's young childhood dreams, only to come alive and shatter his world. One steals away a neighborhood child. And then his president.

Set against the turbulent history of the times, Bronxland tugs on a kaleidoscope of emotions as an uproarious and heartrending coming-of-age tale. It is also the story of a place, a Bronx long gone yet still vivid in the collective memory of those who once called these streets their home. A place of the heart known to each of us, with our own story to tell of growing up, of trying to make sense of our life, with everything that comes along.

Welcome to Bronxland.

Schultz, Kim: - Kim Schultz is a Chicago based author, actor and refugee advocate. In 2009, she traveled to the Middle East as an artist/activist to meet with Iraqi refugees, falling in love with Omar and forever changing her life. For the past seven years, inspired to work on behalf of refugees worldwide, Kim began promoting the art of displaced Iraqi artists, working as NY Chapter Chair of The List Project as well as helping recently resettled refugees make a home in the U.S. through various resettlement organizations. Artistically, she turned their stories and her own into a critically-acclaimed play No Place Called Home: This Isn't Supposed to be a Love Story, a small journal style book Story Diary (Veterans Book Project, 2012) and the memoir Three Days in Damascus (Palewell Press, 2016). She has published several articles and op-eds on the subject and has an essay published in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels and Miracles (Chicken Soup for the Soul, 2016). She blogs, tweets and can be generally found at kimschultz.net.

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ISBN 13	9780995535107
ISBN 10	0995535108
Titel	Three Days in Damascus
Autor	Kim Schultz
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Palewell Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-11-03
Seitenanzahl	288
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