https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k en-us 2022-04-20 18:01:52 UTC 2022-04-25 01:06:27 UTC hello@padlet.com kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150790828 “Approaching along the shore of the Detroit River, Lefty and Desdemona watched their new home take shape” (81).]]> 2022-04-20 18:05:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150790828 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150793732 “As part of the makeover, the YWCA ladies had cut off Desdemona’s immigrant braids” (82). ]]> 2022-04-20 18:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150793732 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150797969 “My grandparents had every reason to believe that Sourmelina would keep their secret. She’d come to America with a secret of her own, a secret the would be guarded by our family until Sourmelina died in 1979” (85-86).]]> 2022-04-20 18:10:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150797969 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150831088 “On the factory floor, my grandfather was trained for his job in seventeen minutes” (95).]]> 2022-04-20 18:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150831088 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150833276 “He says, in English, ‘Hello, sweetheart.’ The new country and its language have helped to push the past a little further behind” (99).]]> 2022-04-20 18:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150833276 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150835545 “Desdemona looked into her husband’s eyes. But it was Sourmelina who explained it all. ‘Your wife and I?’ she said in plain English. ‘We’re both knocked up’” (105). ]]> 2022-04-20 18:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150835545 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150851378 “So began my grandfather’s life of crime. For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn” (112). ]]> 2022-04-20 18:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150851378 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150855637 “The nurses held up both children. The boy was named Miltiades after the great English poet. The girl, who would grow up without a father, was named Theodora, after the scandalous empress of Byzantium whom Sourmelina admired. She would later get an American nickname, too” (125). ]]> 2022-04-20 18:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2150855637 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155595219 "Just like ice, lives crack too. Personalities. Identities. Jimmy Zizmo, crouching over the Packard's wheel, had already changed past understanding...Zizmo's front wheels crack through the surface. The Packard, as gracefully as an elephant standing on it's front legs, flips up onto its grille" (125).]]> 2022-04-24 23:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155595219 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155599777 "From his old connections in the rum-running business he rented a slot machine and ordered a week's supply of beer and whiskey. And on a cold Friday night in February of 1924, he opened for business" (132).]]> 2022-04-24 23:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155599777 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155601014 "On April 27th 1928, Zoe Stephanides was born, a large, healthy girl with the squarish head of her grandmother, a powerful cry, and nothing at all the matter with her" (134).]]> 2022-04-24 23:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155601014 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155603247 "And so my grandmother stepped off onto Hastings Street. The streetcar pulled away, as white faces looked back at her, a woman thrown overboard" (142).]]> 2022-04-24 23:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155603247 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155606391 " 'Listen up now, little sisters,' Sister Wanda said, and, as one, the girls stopped sewing, crossed hands in their laps and looked up attentively. 'This new lady gonna teach us how to make silk" (148).]]> 2022-04-24 23:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155606391 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155608331 "Desdemona argued with the voice. She ridiculed Fard's pronouncements. But as the days passed, my grandmother found herself obediently spreading out silk before the heating vent to cushion her knees. She knelt forward, putting her ear to the grate" (156).]]> 2022-04-24 23:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155608331 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155609379 "Fard Muhammad removes his hat to reveal his face. And the prophet smiles. Surely you've guessed by now. That's right: Jimmy Zizmo" (163).]]> 2022-04-24 23:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155609379 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155623162 "And so it began. He played 'Begin the Beguine' against Tessie's collarbone. He played 'Moonface' against her smooth cheeks...With a secrecy they didn't acknowledge...Tessie allowed Milton to press his clarinet to her skin and fill her body with music" (176).]]> 2022-04-25 00:00:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155623162 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155626422 "Mikey Aninou just proposed to Tessie! They're engaged!" (180).]]> 2022-04-25 00:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155626422 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155627628 "Why had he joined the Navy? For revenge, for escape. He wanted to get back at Tessie , and he wanted to forget her" (186).]]> 2022-04-25 00:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155627628 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155639907 "My parents were married in June of 1946" (197).]]> 2022-04-25 00:23:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155639907 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155653053 "The teller showed him his balance: $13.26...He suddenly felt dizzy. The gambling fever he'd had for twenty-six months broke" (205).]]> 2022-04-25 00:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155653053 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155655847 "And in March of 1954, as my father weighed his future, Chapter Eleven, with a little farewell wave to me, raised his arms and travelled down the waterslide into the world" (200).]]> 2022-04-25 00:38:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155655847 kiraralske https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155664142 "As sperm meets egg, I feel a jolt. There's a loud sound, a sonic boom as my world cracks. I feel myself shift, already losing bits of my prenatal omniscience, tumbling toward the blank slate of personhood" (211).]]> 2022-04-25 00:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kiraralske/djcco3bdjmhk7a9k/wish/2155664142