Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up

In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in." The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, "Your house smells funny," and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters.

Foreword	p. ix
Ars Politica	p. 1
The Center of the Universe	p. 3
My Father's Dance	p. 8
from Sweet Summer	p. 15
Rowing in Amboy	p. 20
Thread	p. 25
Parenthood: A Life Sentence	p. 32
A Child's Garden of Verse	p. 39
from The Kingdom of Brooklyn	p. 57
Saturday Days	p. 65
Transgressions	p. 68
The Spiral Staircase	p. 73
Christmas, Alabama, 1962	p. 82
Ba-chan's Superstition	p. 96
Mute in an English-Only World	p. 104
Memphis Years	p. 108
Spitting Image	p. 112
The Bluff	p. 123
Toadstools	p. 129
Birds at Night	p. 133
The Gravedigger's Daughter	p. 143
Psychedelic Shack	p. 150
Movie Where You Don't See the Monster Until the End	p. 154
Innocence Found	p. 159
Summer Coming	p. 168
Foreigner in Marshfield	p. 172
The Boy Nobody Knew	p. 179
Growing Up in St. Louis	p. 182
Three Women and Me	p. 186
Crick	p. 192
The Swimming Pool	p. 197
Childhood	p. 202
Sitting	p. 206
JohnJohn's World	p. 216
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Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America

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