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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, Arizona, where she hopes to convince her Navajo husband, who has escaped not from his family but from alcoholism, to come home. Over a sputtering two-steps-forward, one-step-back desert journey, Gretta is diverted by chance, seizures, an inconstant memory, and the disjointed character of her irresolute quest. She is fueled by a volatile mix of rage and curiosity and is rendered careless by ambivalence toward her marriage--she knows a welcome mat will not be waiting for her, "that white girl" who can't seem to get anything right. On route Gretta finds herself lost in the landscape, in strange company, or in her own convolution of language and inner space. With a dictionary and a laptop she attempts to write herself into a better existence--a hopeful existence--and to connect points of intellectual, physical, even spiritual reference. This tale, though dark and difficult, is infused with tart, twisted humor. Confused, disheveled, self-deprecating, and self-destructive, Gretta is also sharp and funny. Here, first-time novelist Christine Allen-Yazzie breaks apart her own narrative arc but with gritty reality seals it near-shut again, if in rearrangement, drawing us into Gretta's wrestling match with herself, her husband, her addiction, and the road."--Publisher's description
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monografia Rebiun24346875 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun24346875 m o d cr cn||||||||| 070214s2007 utu o 000 1 eng d 2007004631 608407300 1003078238 1004379911 1005833493 1012358182 1027047557 1028957973 1039296640 1044495735 1048096513 1053603941 1055772371 1057421344 1057439725 1057667115 1060940943 1061075381 1066566928 1087425157 1088952385 1088983562 1109032995 1113248712 1115109242 1119133527 1120877538 9780874216554 electronic bk.) 0874216559 electronic bk.) 9780874216547 acid-free paper) 0874216540 acid-free paper) 1283267381 9781283267380 9786613267382 6613267384 AU@ 000051451831 GBVCP 1008656305 22573/ctt47mc0b JSTOR E7B eng pn E7B N$T REDDC OCLCQ OCLCE OCLCO ZMC OCLCF P@U JSTOR OCLCO YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCO OCL OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO LOA SOI COO VT2 IOG OCLCO LND MERUC UAB STF U3W ICN OCLCO INT CNCEN ERL OCLCQ OCLCO WYU CEF OCLCQ OCLCO MQY OCLCQ TXR W2U OCLCO CNTRU HS0 OTZ LIP dlr FIC 000000 bisacsh FIC000000 bisacsh 813/.54 22 Allen-Yazzie, Christine Diane The arc and the sediment Christine Allen-Yazzie Logan, Utah Utah State University Press ©2007 Logan, Utah Logan, Utah Utah State University Press 1 online resource (196 pages) 1 online resource (196 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda 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 Use copy. Restrictions unspecified star. MiAaHDL "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, Arizona, where she hopes to convince her Navajo husband, who has escaped not from his family but from alcoholism, to come home. Over a sputtering two-steps-forward, one-step-back desert journey, Gretta is diverted by chance, seizures, an inconstant memory, and the disjointed character of her irresolute quest. She is fueled by a volatile mix of rage and curiosity and is rendered careless by ambivalence toward her marriage--she knows a welcome mat will not be waiting for her, "that white girl" who can't seem to get anything right. On route Gretta finds herself lost in the landscape, in strange company, or in her own convolution of language and inner space. With a dictionary and a laptop she attempts to write herself into a better existence--a hopeful existence--and to connect points of intellectual, physical, even spiritual reference. This tale, though dark and difficult, is infused with tart, twisted humor. Confused, disheveled, self-deprecating, and self-destructive, Gretta is also sharp and funny. Here, first-time novelist Christine Allen-Yazzie breaks apart her own narrative arc but with gritty reality seals it near-shut again, if in rearrangement, drawing us into Gretta's wrestling match with herself, her husband, her addiction, and the road."--Publisher's description Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Women alcoholics- Fiction Women authors- Fiction Interracial marriage- Fiction Separated people- Fiction Navajo Indians- Fiction Voyages and travels- Fiction Deserts- Fiction FICTION- General. Deserts. Interracial marriage. Navajo Indians. Separated people. Voyages and travels. Women alcoholics. Women authors. Electronic book Fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. Psychological fiction. Electronic books Print version Allen-Yazzie, Christine Diane. Arc and the sediment. Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007004631 Book collections on Project MUSE