This Fragile Life: A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son

August 29, 2012

“Vigorously written, brave, and candid . . . a deeply moving, instructive account of embattled lives and loves striving for order in the face of a heartbreaking mental illness.”

— Arnold Rampersad, author of Ralph Ellison and The Life of Langston Hughes

Tagged: Nonfiction

Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry

By The Library of Congress, edited by Joy Harjo
W.W.Norton & Company
240 pages
$15

“A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. … Each poem showcases, as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, ‘that heritage is a living thing, and there can be no heritage without land and the relationships that outline our kinship.’”

-from the publisher