The Tenth Month: A Hmong love novel

Subject What's On Your Nightstand? Men Women a scott berg Because they stimulate more than they sedate, I have no books on my night stand; but a big rolling table in my office groans with my current reading — much of which pertains to my latest work, a biography of Thurgood Marshall. Atop the stacks right now are: If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.

For Love of the World. Yehoshua lost his wife to an illness. Rivka Yehoshua was a leading psychoanalyst, and both of them were close friends for more than five decades. I am rereading it now with awe, in tears, and with admiration. Robert Kurson a kendrick Taraji P. In biblical times, Mosul was known as Nineveh, the city in which Jonah delivered his prophecy. It had a terrific reception, but I hesitated about beginning it because of reading that it has some elements of magic realism. I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!

He never makes a statement or claim that is not empirically verifiable. Plantation Violence in the Old South. I find it both energizing and enervating, and best engaged with in chunks so I can experience it and not become numbed by its force. Those are the physical books on my night stand.

To me, this is perhaps the most fascinating and tragic period in American history. Musings of a Geriatric Starlet. Hal Higdon William N.

About 10 years ago I read his three autobiographical novels, which are just not like anything else: I only last month discovered the journals which, apart from very moving material about his life, offers tons of delicious tidbits, from entire scenes a hilarious lunch with Edith Sitwell, who was his champion to small moments when the writing itself stops you in your tracks. However, my desk is piled with them. At the top layer are the newly accumulated books. Among the most recent additions are T. Chester Himes Alison Weir elin hilderbrand I want to begin by saying that I have never been asked to join a book group.

These two individuals are not only the smartest people I know, they are the smartest people anyone knows. TV is boring, but apparently not boring enough to make me fall asleep.

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Usually on my nightstand there is only a Kindle but in this case, the book, recommended by a friend who said that it would explain to me the workings of the minor leagues in baseball, was only available in print. It has information I really wanted to learn, so with a pencil ready I just needed to juggle the weight of the book, adjusting the light and attempting to make good notes and underlining sections.

Of course the trouble with highlighting sections of a real book is that later when you need the information you have to hunt it down with that particular copy. So in this case, I will send the marked-up book to an associate and ask them to go through it and type up all of my highlighted sections and notes.

The Tenth Month A Hmong Love Novel

It is memorable and has all the elements of a great story: It makes me realize that so many of those great figures in history we feel we know so much about, we really know little. From the very first chapter about sisters who survived a kidnapping as children, I was hooked.

I always think about what happens to regular people who go through tragic circumstances as children and how it affects their lives as adults. Roxane Gay seems to have a knack for fearlessly telling the truth. Even in her fiction. From top to bottom: Hayek is the current leader in this dubious contest, as suits his dense prose.

These are the books that are presently on my stand: Besides a notebook for jotting down ideas in the middle of the night and a large yellow highlighter. Our final goal is to carry out a round of interviews next fall and to complete final edits by Thanksgiving. That should put us on track for book delivery by Christmas. This is the Secret War story of Xai Chou. This story is filled with happy moments, and heartbreak.

As I lay on my bed, the sun beamed through the dents of the dry bamboo walls. Half asleep I stood up and walked to our little fireplace, and sat for awhile for my body to restore for the day. We both sat and listened to the burning wood snapping and flickering while it warmed us up. Our mother came aside and told my brother to go and restock the dry wood in the back house. When my mother left to the kitchen, he forced me to go and fetch the woods where they are stacked at our farm.

So I left with a basket on my back and carried a sickle on my hand. On the dirt road heading back home, I was a few steps away from my crowded village. Tired and sore from carrying heavy stacks of wood I sat in the shade under the tree. From the distance, I heard faint noises from the village. It was faint noises that you did not want coming from your village, it was the sound of women and children yelling for help.

I stood up and ran quickly back home. Leaving the stack of wood behind under the shade. I ran to my house avoiding the Vietnamese soldiers. Finally entering my house there was no one home. Clothes and pots were a mess on the ground, which gave me a clue that they had already left. I quickly packed some things and left the house to find my family so I could reunite with them. With a sickle and a small bag, I headed to the jungle where other villagers were heading to. Before entering the jungle I heard someone called my name with a very weak tone. Looking at my surroundings I saw nothing but injured and dead bodies.

I looked again and spotted my older brother with an Ak leaning on a tall hollow tree. I ran to him and quickly helped him up slowly. He groaned in pain. My brother groaned in pain. To save both of our lives I wiped my tears and told him that I will carry him on my back. Struggling, I lifted Tong up and put him on my back. One step at a time we pushed through the jungle Looking forward, I saw people running past us with fear and screaming in terror. As my legs started to move faster my brother groaned louder. He quietly chuckled as we continued through the wet forest. Further into the jungle, my brother became silent, and still had his grip on my clothes with a faint breathing.

It was just me and my brother. All the people were ahead of us. Soon my brother lost his grip and his arms were swaying. His head slowly sank down on my back and his body slowly hunched. I knew he was gone, but I refuse to set him down. So I began to walk faster and his body would flop every step I took. I finally got on my knee and laid him down beside a tree.

I knew it was time to say goodbye. I let go of his cold hands and stood up. Tears filled my eyes and my vision became blurry. In recent years bride kidnapping has resurfaced in areas of China. In many cases, the women are kidnapped and sold to men in poorer regions of China, or as far abroad as Mongolia.

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Reports say that buying a kidnapped bride is nearly one tenth of the price of hosting a traditional wedding. The practice of kidnapping children, teenagers and women from neighbouring tribes and adopting them into the new tribe was common among Native Americans throughout the Americas. The kidnappings were a way of introducing new blood into the group. Captured European women sometimes settled down as adopted members of the tribe and at least one woman, Mary Jemison , refused "rescue" when it was offered.

Several reports of bride kidnapping for religious reasons have surfaced recently. Both perpetrators have been convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault. Other cases exist within some fundamentalist Mormonism around the Utah-Arizona border; however, accurate information is difficult to obtain from these closed communities. Most of these cases are usually referred to as forced marriages , although they are similar to other bride kidnappings around the world. Among the Tzeltal community, a Mayan tribe in Chiapas , Mexico, bride kidnapping has been a recurring method of securing a wife.

Premarital contact between the sexes is discouraged; unmarried women are supposed to avoid speaking with men outside their families.

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In the Tzeltal tradition, a girl is kidnapped by the groom, possibly in concert with his friends. She is generally taken to the mountains and raped. The abductor and his future bride often then stay with a relative until the bride's father's anger is reported to have subsided.

At that point, the abductor will return to the bride's house to negotiate a bride-price, bringing with him the bride and traditional gifts such as rum. Among the Mapuche of Chile, the practice was known as casamiento por capto in Spanish, and ngapitun in Mapudungun. Helena Valero , a Brazilian woman kidnapped by Amazonian Indians in , dictated her story to an Italian anthropologist, who published it in Bride kidnapping has been documented as a marital practice in some Romani community traditions.

In the Romani culture , girls as young as twelve years old may be kidnapped for marriage to teenaged boys. Marriage by capture was practised in ancient cultures throughout the Mediterranean area. It is represented in mythology and history by the tribe of Benjamin in the Bible; [] by the Greek hero Paris stealing the beautiful Helen of Troy from her husband Menelaus , thus triggering the Trojan War ; [] and by the Rape of the Sabine Women by Romulus , the founder of Rome.

The law made kidnapping a public offence; even the kidnapped bride could be punished if she later consented to a marriage with her abductor. The suitor, in coordination with his friends, generally abducted his bride while she was out of her house in the course of her daily chores. The bride would then be secreted outside the town or village.

Though the kidnapped woman was sometimes raped in the course of the abduction, the stain on her honor from a presumptive consummation of the marriage was sufficient to damage her marital prospects irreversibly. The custom of fuitina was widespread in Sicily and continental southern Italy.

In theory and in some cases it was an agreed elopement between two youngsters; in practice it was often a forcible kidnapping and rape, followed by a so-called "rehabilitating marriage" matrimonio riparatore. When she was returned to her family after a week, she refused to marry her abductor, contrary to local expectation. Her family backed her up, and suffered severe intimidation for their efforts; the kidnappers were arrested and the main perpetrator was sentenced to 11 years in prison. The exposure of this "archaic and intransigent system of values and behavioural mores" [] caused great national debate.

In , Franca married her childhood sweetheart, with whom she would later have three children. Conveying clear messages of solidarity, Giuseppe Saragat , then president of Italy , sent the couple a gift on their wedding day, and soon afterwards, Pope Paul VI granted them a private audience. Viola never capitalised on her fame and status as a feminist icon, preferring to live a quiet life in Alcamo with her family. The law allowing "rehabilitating marriages" to protect rapists from criminal proceedings was abolished in The inciting incident for the 12th-century Norman invasion of Ireland was an instance of wife-stealing: The abduction of heiresses was an occasional feature in Ireland until , [] [] as illustrated in the film The Abduction Club.

In , Malta was criticized by Equality Now , for a law which, in certain circumstances, can extinguish the punishment for a man who abducts a woman if, following the abduction, the man and woman get married. East Slavic tribes, predecessor tribes to the Russian state , practised bride kidnapping in the eleventh century. The traditions were documented by Russian monk Nestor. According to his Chronicles , the Drevlian tribe captured wives non-consensually, whereas the Radimich , Viatich , and Severian tribes "captured" their wives after having come to an agreement about marriage with them.

Marriage by capture occurred among the South Slavs until the beginning of the s. Physical force was a frequent element of these kidnappings. Bride kidnapping was also a custom in Bulgaria. With the consent of his parents and the aid of his friends, the abductor would accost his bride and take her to a barn away from the home, as superstition held that pre-marital intercourse might bring bad luck to the house.

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Whether or not the man raped his bride, the abduction would shame the girl and force her to stay with her kidnapper to keep her reputation. As in other cultures, sometimes couples would elope by staging false kidnappings to secure the parents' consent. In Catholic canon law , the impediment of raptus specifically prohibits marriage between a woman abducted with the intent to force her to marry, and her abductor, as long as the woman remains in the abductor's power. The Council of Trent insisted that the abduction in raptus must be for the purpose of marriage to count as an impediment to marriage.

Most Islamic scholars take the view that forced marriage is forbidden. Bride capture has been reflected in feature films from many cultures, sometimes humorously, sometimes as social commentary. Bride kidnapping is depicted as a frontier solution in the Hollywood musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. The Hong Kong film Qiangpin The Bride Hunter portrays the custom in the format of an all-female Shaoxing opera comedy, in which Xia Meng plays a gender-bending role as a man masquerading as a woman.

It is the underlying theme behind the Korean movie The Bow. In the comedy Borat: However, before the national debate caused by the Viola case, a satire directed by Pietro Germi , Seduced and Abandoned Sedotta e abbandonata , treated the Sicilian custom as a dark comedy.

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Some Russian films and literature depict bride kidnapping in the Caucasus. In , the website Vice. In Frances Burney's novel, Camilla , the heroine's sister, Eugenia, is kidnapped by an adventurer called Alphonso Bellamy. Eugenia decides to stay with her husband on the grounds that she believes her word is a solemn oath. Eugenia is fifteen years old, and so underage, and is coerced into the marriage—both were grounds for treating the marriage as illegal. A Sherlock Holmes story features bride kidnapping.

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In " The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist ", a woman is employed as a governess by a man who knows that she will soon inherit a fortune, with the intent of a confederate marrying her. The ceremony does eventually occur, but is void. The heroine is married to a boy in an outside clan, but regrets regarding this decision occur when her original clan has problems bearing heirs. Her birth family comes to retrieve her with the intention of marrying her to someone else, but without success. Her new family tells the invaders that the girl has been impregnated, which would be the last seal on the marriage.

They doubt this has occurred as the groom is very young and, desperate, they resort to a kidnap attempt, but again fail. The fantasy novel A Storm of Swords features marriage by capture or "stealing a woman" as the traditional form of marriage north of the Wall. The Free Folk consider it a test for a man to "steal" a wife and outwit her attempts on his lifelong enough for her to respect his strength and come to love him.

More often, though, marriages by capture are conducted between a couple already in love, an elopement without the extra element of attempted murder. Jon Snow and Ygritte have such a marriage by capture, although at the time Jon was ignorant of the custom and thought he was merely taking her prisoner. The Ironborn are also known to practice this custom, taking secondary wives while reaving the mainland, which they refer to as "salt wives". The Tamora Pierce fantasy novel The Will of the Empress includes bride kidnapping as a major plot point and has extensive discussions of the morality of bride kidnapping.

Multiple characters are kidnapped for the purpose of marriage during the novel, which is used as a warning against it in keeping with the women's rights focus of her series , particularly in the case of poor women or those without social support systems. He seeks to kidnap women by entering their homes, talking gibberish to them Gippog and persuading them to hand over their wedding rings.

He 'names' them all 'Dave', and, after obtaining their rings, proclaims; "you're my wife now". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bride price Bride burning Charivari Exchange of women Groom kidnapping History of rape Honor killing Shotgun wedding , a sudden wedding, often because the bride is pregnant Stockholm syndrome , when a captive grows to identify with their captor. Mental and Social Condition of Savages , Appleton, , p.