Sonja Livingston
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Tales of female daredevils, warriors, killers, and victims: "Radiant essays inspired by 'slivers and bits' of real women's lives...Wise, fresh, captivating."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
At the Dreamland, women and girls flicker from the shadows to take their proper place in the spotlight. In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, and personal...
2) Ghostbread
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When you eat soup every night, thoughts of bread get you through.
One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. From an old farming town to an Indian reservation to a dead-end urban neighborhood, Livingston and her siblings follow their nonconformist mother from one ramshackle house to another on the perpetual search for something...