Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America

In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in. The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, Your house smells funny, and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters.

Author: Susan Richards Shreve
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 10/22/2003
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780618379026

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/01/2003 pg. 77
Booklist 10/15/2003 pg. 380
Library Journal 11/01/2003 pg. 82
Kliatt 03/01/2004 pg. 31

About the Author
Shreve, Susan Richards: - Susan Richards Shreve's published novels include A Student of Living Things and Warm Springs. She has worked as a Professor of English at George Mason University and was previously Co-Chair and President of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She has received several grants for fiction writing, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts award.