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"Deeply moving and hilarious attempts to make sense of life, faith, friendship, romance, and a dysfunctional family." -Roberto Loiederman, co-author, The Eagle MutinyA rollicking follow up to his first book, Paterson Boy, this story collection continues the memoir of Jerry Vis, a city kid from Paterson, New Jersey, as he is packed off to a strict, religious boarding school in the rural South of the 1950s.Jerry is a fish out of water in a place as alien to him as the moon. The strange boarding school is definitely not to his liking, nor his character, and his college life proves much the same as he strives to carve out a niche in which to flourish. To complicate matters, his father, who had come in and out of focus in his life, dramatically emerges center stage, bringing a confusing mix of God, religion, and alcohol.Jerry's humor is both wry and sly. His infectious warmth, easygoing charm, and glimpses of his out-of-place adventures-and misadventures-in a stringent boarding school will sometimes make you laugh out loud and sometimes make your heart ache.I'm Not Here gives rise to the question: Can art save you? The answer in this uplifting story is that maybe it can. That, and a little love.

Written On Water is an extraordinary collection of tales, teeming with drama, mysteries, and laugh-out-loud moments, about a part of Maine that truly is, as those who reside there call it, "back of the beyond."

Vivid, dramatic portraits of the author's "misfit" female ancestors and a candid, intimate memoir about family secrets and breaking free from the narrow confines of a "proper Southern woman." The Beak in the Heart is a memoir of growing up "Southern." Betina Enzminger shares the poignant tales of the Southern women who preceded her-misfit women who defied authority and suffered the consequences in the repressive South Carolina of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Entzminger links several generations of women from pre-Civil War years to the present, including Victoria, a former slave and concubine to her third great uncle, Rosalee, a great aunt committed to the state hospital for forty years, and Carrie, an aunt who unwittingly married a gay man at a time when divorce was not legal in South Carolina. She also shares candid details of her rebellious youth and her own struggles with marriage and parenthood.In exploring the lives of her spirited female relatives, Entzminger-their educated, rebellious, and misfit twenty-first-century descendant-restores their voices and finds inspiration in their courage and integrity. The Beak in the Heart speaks to all women, regardless of region of birth, who have felt that society has curbed their freedoms or silenced their voices.