In Borrowed Houses: a true story of love and faith amidst war in Lebanon

In Borrowed Houses: a true story of love and faith amidst war in Lebanon

In Borrowed Houses is the story of Frances Fuller's years with a Christian publishing house in Lebanon, years of constant warfare and heartache, marked by flashes of humor, grace, and beauty. In her richly detailed memoir, Fuller captures both the heartache and the grace. While she and her husband, Wayne, transform a derelict 'borrowed house' into a thing of beauty and a haven, the land around it is being torn apart. And we get stories-of neighbors and friends, coworkers and strangers. In these stories, Frances Fuller's writing comes vividly alive, and we come to know Lebanon and see its grandeur and the strength and faith of its people -Bob Klausmeier, former book editor for Augsburg Fortress and Lion Publishing, plc “Wise, honest, sensitive, funny, heart-wrenching, and a compelling read: In Borrowed Houses will pull you in, and it will change you. Frances Fuller has a sharp eye for human natures of all sorts, and she knows a great deal about how life should be lived. Who would think that the story of years spent in a war zone can make you laugh out loud? This one does. And then it goes much further. Read it. You'll be glad you did” -Jeanne Larsen, author of the Silk Road trilogy and Why We Make Gardens [& Other Poems] “A wonderful read, beautifully written, the pages infused with love” -Pat Alexander, former editor, Lion Publishing, Oxford, England ” In Borrowed Houses is a pearl of great price. Articulate and restrained, Frances Fuller writes a captivating story for readers of all persuasions. She enlightens us with her inclusive compassion. Given the events in the Middle East since the Arab Spring, especially in Syria, these stories are more timely than ever” -Larry Brook, author, educator, and writer trainer

A Girl Aboard the Titanic

A Girl Aboard the Titanic

The remarkable memoir of Eva Hart, a 7-year old passenger on the doomed Titanic.

'I saw that ship sink, I never closed my eyes. I saw it, I heard it, and nobody could possibly forget it. I can remember the colours, the sounds, everything. The worst thing I can remember are the screams’

‘I was 7, I had never seen a ship before… it looked very big… everybody was very excited, we went down to the cabin and that's when my mother said to my father that she had made up her mind quite firmly that she would not go to bed in that ship, she would sit up at night… she decided that she wouldn't go to bed at night, and she didn't!’

About the Author

Eva Hart was one of the most outspoken survivors concerning the Titanic's lack of sufficient lifeboats and of any salvage attempts of the Titanic after its discovery in 1985. She lived for many years in Chadwell Heath in London and died in 1996. Professor Ron Denney and Eva were friends for many years and he aided her in writing up her memories. Ron Denney lives in Sevenoaks.

The Kindle Edition of “A Girl Aboard The Titanic” contains 100 black and white illustrations.

Surrendered Identity

Surrendered Identity

Surrendered Identity is about rejection. With actual stories that author experienced.

Beloved Demons

Beloved Demons

In his follow-up to Lunatic Heroes, Martignetti sheds all defenses to reveal the viscera of a mind shaped by the dark and confusing forces of his childhood. This collection of memoirs and essays focuses mainly on Martignetti's adult years, and features the pivotal characters of his ever-entertaining personal narrative. From the cascade of memories and emotions triggered by an accidental butterfly killing in “Cocoon Talk,” to the homicidal impulses prompted by a visit to his boyhood home in “Sign,” from the heartbreaking to the hilarious musings inspired by beloved pets in “Mochajava” and “Dog,” and throughout the uncensored sexcapades of “Mad,” “The Wild,” and “Feast of the Hungry Ghost,” Martignetti's colloquial, humorous, and intimate style will keep you riveted, crack you open, enthrall and embrace you with an honesty normally reserved for not even the closest of friends.

The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir

The Life of Jews in Poland before the Holocaust: A Memoir

Ben-Zion Gold’s memoir brings to life the world of a million Jews in pre–World War II Poland who were later destroyed by the Nazis. Warmly recalling the relationships, rituals, observances, and celebrations, Gold evokes the sense of family and faith that helped him through the catastrophe that followed. With him we experience the life and institutions of the time: the heder and hooky playing, his encounter with Hassidism, the courtship and marriage of his oldest sister, and the author’s own first inkling of love. And with him, we recapture the memories that made life worth living in the face of disaster, along with the experience of the human capacity for evil that tested and transformed his faith as it devastated his world. Finally, Gold tells of the fate of his family and of his own escape from that fate.

Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? A Memoir

Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? A Memoir

Official Publication Date: March 5, 2014

“Heartwarming and hilarious!” — Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live

In the summer of ’77, while other boys in the Midwest were busy playing Little League and flocking to see Star Wars, young Kenny Walsh was obsessed with Chris Evert and Woody Allen movies — and daydreamed about moving to New York City. But when his family headed west from the suburbs of Detroit to Phoenix, it was the first in a series of events that set his Big Apple ambitions on the wrong course.

In this funny and moving memoir, Walsh recounts an idiosyncratic childhood that included an attempt to track down a crazed serial killer, a First Amendment battle with his fourth-grade principal, running the local KKK (that’s Kenny’s Kid Kare) babysitting service — and the mysterious disappearance of his father.

Post-college jobs took him to Hollywood and Washington, D.C. — where trouble followed (porn stars, celebrity doppelgängers, anxiety disorders) — yet he still didn’t feel at home. Walsh finally arrived in Manhattan the week of his thirty-first birthday … but was tomorrow as wonderful as he dreamed it would be?

Also:

• Walsh comes to realize he is living with legendary ’80s porn star Mike Henson (chapter 12)


• Walsh is confronted by Thomas Roberts about risqué photos Walsh posted of the hunky news anchor (chapter 19)


• Walsh learns an unexpected lesson while attending a book event for Ricky Martin (chapter 21)
  

  Advance Praise for Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?

  
  

  “I knew Kenneth from his blog, but his backstory is heartwarming and hilarious!” —Andy Cohen, host of Bravo's Watch What Happens Live and author of Most Talkative

  
  

  “Kenneth is the least mousey person I've ever met and now I know exactly why after reading this witty and insightful book. He's exuberantly talented.” —Kevin Sessums, author of Mississippi Sissy

  
  

  “Doesn't matter if you are gay, straight, or from another planet, you must read Kenneth Walsh's spectacular new book. Like Kenneth, the book is witty, serious, and passionate. It is a remarkable story of his personal journey told with humor and brilliant writing.” —David Mixner, civil rights activist and author of Stranger Among Friends

  
  

  “By turns hilarious, poignant, and suspenseful — the Thomas Roberts story had me on the edge of my seat! — Kenneth makes his Alice in Wonderland-esque spin through Manhattan a journey we're more than happy to take with him.” —Dennis Hensley, author of Misadventures in the (213) and Screening Party

  
  
  
  
  

My Inappropriate Life: Some Material May Not Be Suitable for Small Children, Nuns, or Mature Adults

My Inappropriate Life: Some Material May Not Be Suitable for Small Children, Nuns, or Mature Adults

Following her laugh-out-loud New York Times bestseller You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again, Chelsea Lately writer and star Heather McDonald moves on from dating to motherhood with this new collection of outrageous essays chronicling her attempt to have it all—her way.

This self-proclaimed “Real Housewife of Woodland Hills” is determined to achieve A-list status (thus expanding her entourage beyond her three school-age children and a househusband who is infuriatingly bad at collecting neighborhood gossip) and to defeat (or at least be accepted by) the mean neighborhood moms who judge her for taking her kids to a stripper pool party in Vegas. It’s a lot to juggle when she’s also battling Chelsea Handler and coworkers for the crudest practical jokes (just ask her about that “free” Vera Wang dress). . . .

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Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

Sean Strub, founder of the groundbreaking POZ magazine, producer of the hit play The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, and the first openly HIV-positive candidate for U.S. Con­gress, charts his remarkable life—a story of politics and AIDS and a powerful testament to loss, hope, and survival.

As a politics-obsessed Georgetown freshman, Sean Strub arrived in Washington, D.C., from Iowa in 1976, with a plum part-time job running a Senate elevator in the U.S. Capitol. He also harbored a terrifying secret: his attraction to men. As Strub explored the capital’s political and social circles, he discovered a parallel world where powerful men lived double lives shrouded in shame.

When the AIDS epidemic hit in the early 1980s, Strub was living in New York and soon found himself attending “more funerals than birthday parties.” Scared and angry, he turned to radical activism to combat discrimination and demand research. Strub takes readers through his own diagnosis and inside ACT UP, the activist organization that transformed a stigmatized cause into one of the defining political movements of our time.

From the New York of Studio 54 and Andy Warhol’s Factory to the intersection of politics and burgeoning LGBT and AIDS movements, Strub’s story crackles with history. He recounts his role in shocking AIDS demonstrations at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the home of U.S. Sen­ator Jesse Helms. Body Counts is a vivid portrait of a tumultuous era, with an astonishing cast of characters, including Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Keith Haring, Bill Clinton, and Yoko Ono.

By the time a new class of drugs transformed the epidemic in 1996, Strub was emaciated and covered with Kaposi’s sarcoma lesions, the scarlet letter of AIDS. He was among the fortunate who returned, Lazaruslike, from the brink of death.

Strub has written a vital, inspiring memoir, unprecedented in scope, about this deeply important period of American history.

Dirty Rocker Boys

Dirty Rocker Boys

SHE’S MY CHERRY PIE. Tastes so good, make a grown man cry.

Who could forget the sexy “Cherry Pie” girl from hair metal band Warrant’s infamous music video? Bobbie Brown became a bona fide vixen for her playful role as the object of lead singer Jani Lane’s desires. With her windblown peroxide mane, seductive scarlet lips, and flirtatious curves, she epitomized every man’s fantasy. But the wide-eyed Louisiana beauty queen’s own dreams of making it big in Los Angeles were about to be derailed by her rock-and-roll lifestyle. . . .

Ever wonder what it ’s like to f*** a rock star?

After her tumultuous marriage to Jani imploded, and her engagement to fast-living Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee ended in a drug haze—followed by his marriage days later to Pamela Anderson—Bobbie decided it was time Hollywood’s hottest bachelors got a taste of their own medicine. Step one: get high. Step two: get even.

In a captivating, completely uncensored confessional, Bobbie explicitly recounts her encounters with some of the most famous men in Hollywood: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kevin Costner, Mark McGrath, Dave Navarro, Sebastian Bach, Ashley Hamilton, Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli, Matthew and Gunnar Nelson, Orgy’s Jay Gordon, and many more. Who’s got the most titanic dick in Tinseltown? Whose bedroom did Bobbie (literally) set on fire? No man was off limits as the fun-loving bombshell spiraled into excess, anger, and addiction.

Bobbie survived the party—barely—and her riveting, cautionary comeback tale is filled with the wildest stories of sex, drugs, and rock and roll ever told.

The "Genius"

The “Genius”

About the Author- Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.Dreiser's best known novels include Sister Carrie (1900) and An American Tragedy (1925). -Wikipedia For more eBooks visit www.kartindo.com

My Family Ghost Stories

My Family Ghost Stories

This title contains a short recollection of ghost stories told to the author by family and friends. Although some are fictional, several were said to be true occurrences.

Full Bloom: I'm in that awkward stage between Birth and Death

Full Bloom: I'm in that awkward stage between Birth and Death

Full Bloom offers an unflinching accounts of the rapturous highs and despondent lows of someone afflicted with bipolar disorder. Certainly readers who’ve been diagnosed as falling within the bipolar spectrum, as well as their friends and loved ones, can experience a resonance in the pages of this forthright manuscript. While that familiarity may sometimes be uncomfortable—these stories don’t make for easy reading—the close of each story offers comforting and admirable hope.

Rama Gaze in My Direction

Rama Gaze in My Direction

Rama Gaze in My Direction is the transformative biography of Rama – Dr. Frederick Lenz (1950 – 1998). This book is a page-turning account of how a rebellious teenager journeyed to Nepal in 1969 and received a life changing prophesy — that he would revive an ancient lineage of wisdom and enlightenment. The book chronicles Rama's life as he grew to fulfill this prophesy, along the way carving a new path for American Buddhism. Miracles, feminism, adventures and wonderful, life-changing teachings are all woven into the biography, based on over 100 interviews with colleagues, associates and students. Author Liz Lewinson is a former freelance journalist who spent 15 years writing and compiling this material. See reviews, blogs and videos at www.ramabio.com.

Never Date a Narcissist

Never Date a Narcissist

The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time

The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time

Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would turn his own good fortune into an effort to make lives like theirs better. Bob found his way to Kiva.org, the leading portal through which individuals make microloans all over the world: for as little as $25-50, businesses are financed and people are uplifted. Astonishingly, the repayment rate was nearly 99%, so he re-loaned the money to others over and over again.

After making hundreds of microloans online, Bob wanted to see the results first-hand, and in The International Bank of Bob he travels from Peru and Bosnia to Rwanda and Cambodia, introducing us to some of the most inspiring and enterprising people we've ever met, while illuminating day-to-day life-political and emotional-in much of the world that Americans never see. Told with humor and compassion, The International Bank of Bob brings the world to our doorstep, and makes clear that each of us can, actually, make it better.

May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind

May I Be Happy: A Memoir of Love, Yoga, and Changing My Mind

“For the millions of people—especially women—who fight the fat talk in their heads, her words will be familiar and comforting.” —Associated Press

In the opening pages of her memoir, Cyndi Lee shares a surprising revelation. Despite her success as a dancer, choreographer, and yoga teacher, she was caught in a lifelong cycle of self-judgment about her body. Inspired by her students, Lee embarked on a journey of self-discovery—around the globe and within herself—and sought the counsel of knowing women, including Jamie Lee Curtis, Dr. Christiane Northrup, and Louise Hay. Applying the ancient Buddhist practice of loving-kindness meditation, Lee comes to learn that compassion is the only antidote to hate. By becoming her own best student, Lee internalizes the strength, stability, and clarity she seeks to impart.

Further Confessions of a GP (The Confessions Series)

Further Confessions of a GP (The Confessions Series)

Benjamin Daniels is back. He may be older, wiser and more experienced, but his patients are no less outrageous.

Drawing on his time working as a medical student, a locum, and a general practitioner, Dr Daniels would like to introduce you to …

The old age pensioner who can’t keep his hands to himself.

The teenager convinced that he lost his virginity and caught HIV sometime between leaving a bar and waking up in a kebab shop.

A female patient Dr Daniels recognises from his younger, bachelor years.

The woman whose mobile phone turns up in an unexpected place.

A Jack Russell with a bizarre foot fetish.

Crackhead Kenny.

Not to mention the super nurses, anxious parents, hypochondriacs, jumpy medical students and kaleidoscope of care workers that make up Dr Daniels’ daily shift.

Further Confessions of a GP is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling Confessions of a GP. With more eyebrow-raising stories from the world of general practice, Dr Daniels will once again amuse, shock and surprise.

You’ll never feel the same about going to the doctor again…

From Here to Maternity

From Here to Maternity

A personal account of infertility, IVF & adoption. 'After three years and a total of nine embryo transfers, Glenn and I are hanging up our saddles … For many, three years might seem an insufficient effort, but I am tired. My body is tired, my mind is tired and most of all my heart is tired. I still believe that IVF is a modern, medical miracle … But I no longer believe it will be our miracle.' What happens when the quest for a family seems to bring only tears and despair? As Kylie and her husband Glenn discovered you simply pick yourself up, take a deep breath and carry on. 'As harsh as it seems, the adoption process in Western Australia can only be described as excruciating: intrusive, intense, bureaucratic and judgemental.' Kylie's struggle to conquer the intricacies and inconsistencies of the adoption process push both her and Glenn to the limits of their endurance, and just when all seems lost they are handed a lifeline that sees their hope of becoming parents flicker back to life. 'Is it bad news?' 'No, it is very good news … we have a baby for you, a little boy.' Honest, perceptive and deeply personal 'From Here to Maternity' is a warm and ultimately joyful story about one couple's determination to overcome infertility and bureaucracy and become a family against all the odds.

Life on the Invisible Line

Life on the Invisible Line

John Bouchard was born in1934, in Falcon Bridge, Ontario. From an early age, John displayed artistic ability. As a young child, he drew detailed pictures, displaying talent far beyond his age. As an older child he began to paint pictures which caught the attention of many. In 1957, he attended The Southern Alberta College of Fine Arts, in Calgary, Alberta, where he studied graphic art and design. Upon completion, he worked as a sign designer, creating signs for various businesses. John had always had a penchant for the outdoors. He left his sign design job, pursuing his love for the wilderness. He bought a trap line near Petrie, Ontario. He enjoyed trapping, being his own boss, and working in the wilderness. That summer, he worked for the Department of Lands and Forests as a “tower man” at the Loch Erne fire tower near Shebandowan Lake. In 1967, his work with Lands and Forests led him to a summer job as Ranger at the Cache Bay Quetico Park Ranger Station. During the winter of 1968, John accepted a position with a toy manufacturer in Chanhassen, Minnesota, where he designed stuffed toys. Once again, John was not content with an indoor job. In the spring of 1968, John acquired a seasonal job as Deputy Conservation Officer at Saganaga Lake. During the winters, he trapped in the same area. In 1985, John was promoted to Conservation Officer and was posted in Nakina, Ontario. A few years later, he was transferred to Upsala, Ontario. John retired in 1994 and currently lives in Thunder Bay Ontario.

Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir

Dancing Fish and Ammonites: A Memoir

The beloved and bestselling author takes an intimate look back at a life of reading and writing

“The memory that we live with . . . is the moth-eaten version of our own past that each of us carries around, depends on. It is our ID; this is how we know who we are and where we have been.”

Memory and history have been Penelope Lively’s terrain in fiction over a career that has spanned five decades. But she has only rarely given readers a glimpse into her influences and formative years.

Dancing Fish and Ammonites traces the arc of Lively’s life, stretching from her early childhood in Cairo to boarding school in England to the sweeping social changes of Britain’s twentieth century. She reflects on her early love of archeology, the fragments of the ancients that have accompanied her journey—including a sherd of Egyptian ceramic depicting dancing fish and ammonites found years ago on a Dorset beach. She also writes insightfully about aging and what life looks like from where she now stands.

The Black Rose: A two-part memoir

The Black Rose: A two-part memoir

On her lunch hour every day, she would sunbathe on the cliffs of Styrso, and quickly earned the nickname “The Black Rose” from the men on the wards of the hospital where she worked. This is a two-part memoir of her life growing up in Sweden (age 3 – 23) and then finding herself transplanted to America (age 23 – 73).

The Forgotten Pioneer: A true family story set in East Africa

The Forgotten Pioneer: A true family story set in East Africa

“My grandfather was one of the first white men to set foot in Kenya when it was a newly discovered, barren and dangerous place. Neither he or his family ever imagined that he would fall under the spell of Africa and remain there for the rest of his life…”

Anthea Ramsay was inspired to write her grandparents' story after being left their diaries, photographs and letters which described the terrible dangers and hardships they endured in East Africa in the early 1900s. The Forgotten Pioneer records their experiences as early pioneers, followed by the lives of their children, Anthea's parents, and the life of the author herself.

There is never a dull moment in Anthea's family history, from one generation to the next. She describes the difficulty of her grandparents' experiences through a time when there were no hospitals or medicines and illnesses such as black water fever and typhoid were rife, her parents' decadent lives on the edge of the Happy Valley set and their connections with the murder of Lord Erroll, and finally her own experiences growing up in Africa and living in the shadow of the Mau Mau rebellion.

The Forgotten Pioneer takes the reader on an enchanting journey, tracing the family through four generations. From her grandfather leaving his home in Kent to live in a tent and face many close encounters with man-eating lions and hostile African tribes with poisoned arrows, to her eldest daughter returning to Kenya to live and farm with her family, it seems each generation has been equally captivated by this magical place.

A unique timeline of one family’s history in East Africa, The Forgotten Pioneer makes a captivating read for anyone who has experienced or is interested in Africa.

The O.G.

The O.G.

The following account of my time spent between March 26th, 2008 and March 29th, 2010 is mostly factual, with occasional lapses into poetic license or vituperative anger. Humor is pursued wherever possible to ease the pain of incarceration without losing the message that “crime does not pay”––Goldman/Sachs, Bank of America, or your person or institution of choice notwithstanding. A Special Thanks to Karrie Nitsche for a beautiful cover.

Fixin' to Git: One Fan's Love Affair with NASCAR's Winston Cup

Fixin' to Git: One Fan's Love Affair with NASCAR's Winston Cup

A NASCAR fan for years, Jim Wright attended stock-car races at seven of the Winston Cup’s legendary venues in 1999: Daytona, Indianapolis, Darlington, Charlotte, Richmond, Atlanta, and Talladega. The “Fixin’ to Git Road Tour” resulted in this book — not just a travelogue of Wright’s year at the races, but a fan’s valentine to the spectacle, the pageantry, and the subculture of Winston Cup racing. “This book’s personal impressions don’t take you behind the pit wall — they take you into the stand, where the average folks watch the race. Wright combines the interests of the academic and the common race fan for an uncommon vision of NASCAR.” – Scott Huler, author of A Little Bit Sideways: One Week inside a NASCAR Winston Cup Race Team “If you are a NASCAR fan, or if you just want to know what all the fuss is about, this book is for you… Fixin’ to Git explains, as well as it can be explained, the attraction Americans have for stock-car racing… Wright puts stock-car racing squarely into the context of America’s love affair with the automobile, covers the basics, explains its national attraction and wraps it all up into the one big subculture that has become America’s fastest-growing sport… From sponsors to pit crews, from drivers to souvenir sellers, hardly any element in the spectacle of stock-car racing is left unexamined… [T]he fun of it all is laid out for readers to enjoy. If you are looking for a good book for that NASCAR-loving guy or gal on you Christmas list, this will be appreciated… And yes, NASCAR fans do read!” – Harvey Jackson, The Anniston Star (Alabama) “Easily the most compelling look at Winston Cup ever.” – Shawn Courchesene, The Hartford Courant “[T]he crux of [this] unabashed study is that racing can be good fun. The finest chapters focus on the thrill of going 200 mph while negotiating turns on an increasingly slick, sloping ellipse.” – Publishers Weekly “This is the very best book to surface on auto racing in many years. Informative, entertaining, and eye-opening.” – Wes Lukowsky, Booklist “[A] wonderful book on stock-car racing…” – Royal Ford, The Boston Globe

Bat Mitzvah Girl: Memories of a Jamaican Child

Bat Mitzvah Girl: Memories of a Jamaican Child

Rarely do we get an inside look at the effects of immigration on a child. We follow this little girl's journey within the covers of Bat Mitzvah Girl, we see through her eyes as she is reunited with her strong-willed mother and charming father, and becomes the beloved child of four loving Jewish childless aunties in London’s East End. This is the true story of one immigrant child growing up in two very different cultures. She is loved and disrespected; protected and vulnerable; happy and sad – and is posed with the problem of figuring out who she is in all this divergence. Migration calls for lots of adjustments and, once they are made, a whole new set appears as Beverley is once again living in Jamaica with her dominant grandmother and a host of colorful relatives. Customs are challenging; school is terrorizing. She doesn't know what to believe, but she is surrounded by loving (if contradictory!) viewpoints in both England and Jamaica. Beverley’s coming of age story deals with delicate issues of race, separation and longing and an abundance of family love. Walk with Beverley through this jumble of relationships and experiences. Know her confusion, feel her love of justice, see her shrink and grow within the loving embrace of different folks from different cultures, and see how they all work things out. These patchworks of experiences mould her to be the woman she is today. ***** Praise for Bat Mitzvah Girl “Bev East’s charismatic personality and expansive humanity illuminate this tie-dyed sunburst reminiscence of a wide-eyed childhood spent in Jamaica and the UK. As much personal recollection as a travelogue – Bat Mitzvah Girl brings together two of the world’s most tragic Diasporas in one Love.” Colin Channer – Author of Waiting in Vain and the Girl with the Golden Shoes