Toni Mcnaron: 2 books

"Represents a new generation of women's writing, one in which personal histories and maternal legacies are reclaimed in the context of a feminist consciousness of the effects of class, race, ethnicity, and sexuality on the individual life.... McNaron creates a vivid, moving, and memorable account...

"Contradictions can be "decided," one way or the other—it either is raining or it is not raining, it cannot be both raining and not raining. Paradoxes, on the other hand, cannot be resolved one way or the other. We must simply try to accept them and live within the uncomfortable mystery they create."...