Swaying: Essays on Intercultural Love
This book is designed "to do two things at once: acknowledge the sometimes anguishingly difficult, sometimes unsolvable, dilemmas of intercultural couplesandcelebrate the creative solutions that many couples find." In addition to relatively familiar voices like those of Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala, Le Ly Hayslip, and poet Judith Ortiz Cofer, the book includes essays by Christi Merrill, Mary Hanford, Elizabeth Martinez, Faith Eidse, Fern Kupfer, Catherine Casale, Lita Page, JoAnn Hansen Rasch, Nora Egan, Susan Tiberghien, and both editors. There are wonderful titles here, like "Voodoo Faust" and "Another Traditional Arab-Jewish Iowa Potluck." The authors describe relationships across ethnic and cultural and sometimes (though not always) religious and racial lines. The editors had planned to include male and female authors and gay/lesbian as well as straight relationships, but the submissions and suggestions they received produced an all-female, all-heterosexual collection.Mary Carroll--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.