Description
This personal and provocative look at poverty in America isshaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, andpoems, including the well-known Call Me Child of God ... NotThose People. The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholicworking-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, draws togetherthe experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church andmusic in her life, and the many remarkable people who populatedher life and the lives of her family.
The author describes economic hardship and social challenges asbeing as "regular as the turning seasons in my coming up years,"and refers to her life in poverty as the "soil of my art." Through herstories and reflections, Julia Dinsmore puts a face on poverty andchallenges readers to answer God's call to respond to poverty andits effects.
Author: Julia K. Dinsmore
Publisher: Augsburg Books
Published: 04/17/2007
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.90w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780806656243
ISBN10: 0806656247
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Inspirational
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Inspirational & Religious
- Religion | Christian Living | Devotional
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