Intercultural couples struggle, often quite successfully, with the kind of questions anyone who wants to live responsibly in a multicultural world must raise. They live, as we must all learn to do, in a place where multiple cultures find expression. This engaging anthology of literary nonfiction celebrates the creative potential of choosing diversity and explores in many voices the real-life social, cultural, and spiritual consequences of this choice. These are the honest voices of women who have made commitments across national and cultural lines, who have moved toward the revitalizing and educating potential of such partnerships.
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This book is designed "to do two things at once: acknowledge the sometimes anguishingly difficult, sometimes unsolvable, dilemmas of intercultural couples and celebrate the creative solutions that many couples find." In addition to relatively familiar voices like those of Ruth Prawer-Jhabvala, Le Ly Hayslip, and poet Judith Ortiz Cofer, the book includes essays by Christi Merrill, Mary Hanford, Elizabeth Martinez, Faith Eidse, Fern Kupfer, Catherine Casale, Lita Page, JoAnn Hansen Rasch, Nora Egan, Susan Tiberghien, and both editors. There are wonderful titles here, like "Voodoo Faust" and "Another Traditional Arab-Jewish Iowa Potluck." The authors describe relationships across ethnic and cultural and sometimes (though not always) religious and racial lines. The editors had planned to include male and female authors and gay/lesbian as well as straight relationships, but the submissions and suggestions they received produced an all-female, all-heterosexual collection. Mary Carroll
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“Swaying blasts the reader out of routine American life to face the larger challenges of a wider world. From an American woman leaving all familiarity to live a new life with her Indian husband to a Vietnamese woman who immigrates to the U.S. with her American spouse, these writers describe the dilemmas, solutions, and resolutions they experience when they break through barriers of 'difference.' Grearson and Smith have compiled a moving and profound set of stories that open us to a new way of viewing the intricacies of intimacy. Male or female, this book is for anyone who's ever struggled with a relationship. This book is for anyone who's ever tried to confront the self.”—Mary Swander, author of Out of this World
“Swaying is one of the most rewarding books I have read in a long time. These are incandescent stories that speak from the full hearts of their talented authors about the most important relationships in their lives. Some of these stories are sweetly optimistic; some are profoundly disturbing; all are brave and wonderfully written. All gently explore the nuances of dream and disappointment, the quiet pains and joys of trying to live together across cultures. Read one story and savor it, then another, and another. Almost any single piece alone would be worth the book's price. Together, the collection is priceless.”—Paul R. Spickard, author of Mixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America
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I am so happy I found this book. If you are in an intercultural relationship, these are a wonderful compilation of stories from others who are going through or have gone through similar situations. I was laughing out loud at situations so similar to my own. It is a wide range of people and situations and just a joy to read. There defiantely aren't a lot of books on the subject, and this is a great addition to my library!
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If you are in a cross cultural relationship, or are attracted to people who are different than you are, this is a must read book. For your effort you will have the pleasure of reading delightful and fresh accounts of a variety of relationship experiences across cultures. As someone who has read more analysis in one life time than anyone should read in a hundred, its a real treat to be shown by example what the experience is like.Relationships require frequent communication and connection - when there are language gaps, gaps in expectations, gaps in experience, gaps in communication styles - the challenge of sustaining a fulfilling interaction is real. Go in with your eyes open, learn from the honest stories these women share.
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