My Name Is Child of God ... Not Those People

This personal and provocative look at poverty in America is shaped around the author's own engaging stories, song lyrics, and poems, including the well-known Call Me Child of God ... Not Those People. The story of her growing up in a large Irish Catholic working-class family in Minneapolis, Minnesota, draws together the experiences of living in poverty, the role of the church and music in her life, and the many remarkable people who populated her life and the lives of her family. The author describes economic hardship and social challenges as being 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 her stories and reflections, Julia Dinsmore puts a face on poverty and challenges readers to answer God's call to respond to poverty and its effects.

Author: Julia K. Dinsmore
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 05/01/2007
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.90w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780806656243

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 03/01/2008 pg. 64

About the Author
Dinsmore, Julia K.: -

Julia K. Dinsmore is a freelance writer, storyteller, and singer/songwriter. As a child she lived in poverty and as an adult she has found herself living below the poverty line. Her riveting stories, songs, and poems reveal what it is like to be poor in America. Articulate, clear-visioned, and endowed with a marvelous sense of justice and humor, she makes frequent presentations to college classes, church groups, and civic organizations. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota

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