Books on Southeast Asian nationalist movements make very little - if any - mention of women in their ranks
and are influenced by them when making buying decisions
a young woman with a huge heart
but especially so for someone like Shirin
and historiagraphy and oral traditions are covered
Emotionally Weird Arab American Book Award for Fiction (2007) Books on Southeast Asian nationalistOn a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out