Bøger af Diana R Zimmerman

On the day she runs away from her husband, everything goes just as Diana has planned. It won'tbe long, however, until her careful design unravels to the point where she finds herself nearlyhomeless in Costa Rica's capital city.Time fragments in this book, and travels in two directions at once. Spliced together with aharrowing series of events that leave her stunned and in danger, Diana relives her romance withthe home she loved in the village of Los Rios and the man she married there.Spartan prose poetry relates the story moving forward, while an image-dense presentation of lifein rural Costa Rica takes us back further and further in time, unfolding layers of depth that makethis book impossible to put down.

This is a duel-language book of poetry in English and Italian. It tells a story of love and of death due to a rapid illness. The poems bravely bear witness to terrible beauty of these experiences. Questo è un libro di poesie in inglese e italiano. Racconta una storia di amore e di morte a causa di una malattia veloce. Le poesie sono una testimonianza coraggiosa alla bellezza terribile di queste esperienze.

"With grace, humor, and sensitivity, Diana R. Zimmerman renders a traditional Mennonite farm family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, as seen through a child's eyes and spoken in the hypnotic rhythms of a young girl's voice. The spirited speaker develops a rich sense of herself and her community as she grows up in a conservative religious context where "help means spank," and female children are reared for lives of obedience, modesty, and piety. This is a remarkably immediate work of memory and imagination-authentic, fair-minded, and unsentimental- suitable for readers of all ages."-Julia Spicher Kasdorf, author of Sleeping Preacher and The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life"Diana R. Zimmerman has written a great American memoir. I was reminded of Huck Finn and Harriet the Spy and Jo March as I chuckled and gasped and laughed out loud through this book. You will love this little Mennonite girl, and she will lead you back to your own inner child. You will also start seeing the world through her eyes. You won't want this story to end."-Shirley Hershey Showalter, author of Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World