The Pleasing Hour Anthropology and scrimping by in flea-bitten

and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments

Maddie Ballard explores the making (and sometimes remaking) of seventeen specific garments over a period of great change in her life--from a jacket lined with the embroidered Cantonese names of her female ancestors

who offers a personal story about his first stumbling steps towards becoming a world-famous street artist

"What truly makes Strout exceptional

Publisher Description: A veteran writing teacher makes a "moving" (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can't be replaced by AI

The Pleasing Hour Anthropology and scrimping by in flea-bittenTitle: The Pleasing Hour Author: Lily King ISBN: 9780802143747 Publisher: Grove Press Published: 2010 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Lily King's highly acclaimed, award winning debut novel is the story of Rosie, an American au pair in Paris whose coming of age defies all our usual conceptions of navet and experience. Rosie is fleeing an unspeakable loss that has left her homesick for