{"product_id":"ono-ono-girls-hula-9780299156343","title":"Ono Ono Girl's Hula","description":"Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live. In the process, Strasser rediscovered what she had suppressed through that long span of time: exceptional strength and a passion for writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Eye \u003c\/i\u003eincludes excerpts from a journal Strasser kept from 1985 to1986, the year she made the decision to leave her marriage, and present-day commentary on the journal passages and her family history. Strasser works like a detective investigating her own life, drawing clarity and power from journal passages, dreams, and memories that originally emerged from confusion and despair. With language that is both insightful and poetic, she reveals the psychological and social circumstances that led a \"strong\" woman, an intelligent and politically active feminist, to become an emotionally dependent, abused wife.\u003cbr\u003eNot coincidentally, the same year that Strasser finally found the courage to leave her husband, she also reclaimed her creative voice. Newly empowered and energized by this enormous life change, Strasser began writing again after twenty-five silent years dominated by her mother s illness and death, her own cancer, and her painful, fearful marriage. \u003ci\u003eBlack Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the fruits of this creative reawakening. Strasser s writing is refreshingly honest and instantly engrossing. Not shy of wretchedness or beauty, Strasser s story is bitterly personal, ultimately triumphant, and inspiring to all who deal with the adversity that is part of human life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carolyn Lei-Lanilau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.07w x 0.51d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299156343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Firecracker Alternative Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/1997 pg. 1566\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/1997 pg. 539","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39952724656243,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_13ee764c-fe1d-4331-9fa1-905a340cfe2b.jpg?v=1648564410","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/ono-ono-girls-hula-9780299156343","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}