Supremely Tiny Acts by Sonya Huber
Winner (Bronze, Autobiography & Memoir), 2021 Foreword Indies Awards "I think we have to get to the real, to catch the facts we have, to hold on to what we see. . . .in this time where lies are currency," Sonya Huber writes in her book-length essay Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir of a Day. On the theory that naming the truths of quotidian experience can counter the dangerous power of lies, she carefully recounts two anxiety-fueled days one fall. On the first, she is arrested as part of a climate protest in Times Square. On the other, she must make it to her court appearance while also finding time to take her son to get his learner's permit. Paying equal attention to minor details, passing thoughts, and larger political concerns around activism and parenting in the Trump-era United States, Huber asks: How can one simultaneously be a good mother, a good worker, and a good citizen? As she reflects on the meaning of protest and on whiteness and other forms of privilege within political activism, Huber offers a wry, self-aware, and stirring testament to the everyday as a seedbed for meaningful change.
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
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The Trouble with Men
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On Our Way Home from the Revolution
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Night Mother
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The Hunger Book
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My Private Lennon
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Secrets of the Sun
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City of Toys
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Men I Hate
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Hummingbirds Between the Pages
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
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Everything I Never Wanted to Know
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Art for the Ladylike
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When the World Explodes
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This One Will Hurt You
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Fear Icons
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A Mother's Tale
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Through a Long Absence
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Don't Come Back
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Ripe
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Warhol's Mother's Pantry
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Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
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Engine Running
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Don't Look Now
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Echo's Fugue
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Dark Tourist
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The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here
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You, Me, and the Violence
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Sustainability
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Love's Long Line
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Curiouser and Curiouser
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Mistaken for an Empire
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The Real Life of the Parthenon
Sonya Huber is an Assistant Professor teaching creative writing and composition at Fairfield University, Connecticut (USA). Her background includes sociology/anthropology at Carleton University, an M.A. in journalism, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from The Ohio State University. Among her many publications in a wide variety of genres are the books Opa Nobody and Cover Me, A Health Insurance Memoir, both with the University of Nebraska Press; articles in Psychology Today, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Sojourner; and creative writing in Literary Mama and Fourth Genre.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814258040 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814258042 |
| Title | Supremely Tiny Acts |
| Author | Sonya Huber |
| Series | 21st Century Essays |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ohio State University Press |
| Year published | 2021-10-16 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Commended for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Autobiography/Memoir) 2021 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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