Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. recently demonstrated its commitment to global impact with a transformative week-long service initiative in Liberia. Under the leadership of International Regional Director Carrie J. Clark, members from across the sorority’s International Region convened to execute projects aligned with their 2022-2026 theme, “Soaring to Greater Heights of Service and Sisterhood,” spearheaded […]
(BPRW) Biden-Harris Administration Makes History Launching New Suite of Summer Nutrition Programs to Help Tackle Hunger and Improve Healthy Eating for Millions of Children “SUN Programs” Include New Grocery Benefits, In-Person Meals and To-Go Meals (Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today the launch of “SUN Programs: USDA’s Summer Nutrition Programs […]
(BPRW) Biden-Harris Administration Makes History Launching New Suite of Summer Nutrition Programs to Help Tackle Hunger and Improve Healthy Eating for Millions of Children “SUN Programs” Include New Grocery Benefits, In-Person Meals and To-Go Meals (Black PR Wire) WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today the launch of “SUN Programs: USDA’s Summer Nutrition Programs […]
It’s E-Z! For more than a decade, Eric Bellinger has been in the music business as the master pen behind some of the culture’s biggest hits. And as a solo artist, he continues to defy the odds, showing the power that comes when fiercely chasing one’s dream — and doing so with passion and talent […]
“A searing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain, motherhood, addiction, and finding sustenance in the natural world.” —Kirkus
In The Hunger Book, Agata Izabela Brewer evokes her Polish childhood under Communism, where the warmth of her grandparents’ love and the scent of mushrooms drying in a tiny apartment are as potent as the deprivations and traumas of life with a terrifyingly unstable, alcoholic single mother. Brewer indelibly renders stories of foraging for food, homemade potato vodka (one of the Eastern Bloc’s more viable currencies), blood sausage, sparrows plucked and fried with linseed oil, and the respite of a country garden plot, all amid Stalinist-era apartment buildings, food shortages, martial law, and nuclear disaster in nearby Ukraine.
Brewer reflects on all of this from her immigrant’s vantage point, as she wryly tries to convince her children to enjoy the mushrooms she gathers from a roadside and grieves when they choose to go by Americanized versions of their Polish names. Hunting mushrooms, like her childhood, carried both reward and mortal peril. The Hunger Book, which includes recipes, is an unforgettable meditation on motherhood and addiction, resilience and love.
Publisher : Mad Creek Books (September 29, 2023)
Language : English
Paperback : 240 pages
ISBN-10 : 0814258786
ISBN-13 : 978-0814258781
Item Weight : 1.11 pounds
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.5 x 8.5 inches
Corey Miller, better known as C-Murder, is leading a hunger strike at a correctional facility in Louisiana over the death of several incarcerated people due to COVID-19. The 49-year-old rapper, who is incarcerated at the Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, said in a statement provided by his publicist, that the institution participates in practices that jeopardize […]