Vera's Will (ePub)
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Vera Steiner lives through pogrom, poverty, epidemic ... but how can she go on after she loses everything? In a time before anyone dares dream that love is a right, Vera pays for her deviance with lifelong loneliness. Yet this is not a throwback to the old doomed-lesbian tale. Vera survives. Fifty years later, in a new era, her granddaughter Randy comes of age and comes out of the closet. Randy throws herself into the struggle to do away with shame and secrecy--never knowing her own grandmother's secret shame until it's too late. Sweeping across the miles and over the years--from czarist Russia to sweatshop New Jersey, from the 1960s Motor City to the Manhattan of LGBTQ protests--VERA'S WILL takes the reader on a grand journey. Set against the backdrop of war, depression, McCarthyism, civil rights, AIDS, this is a novel of the 20th century. This is a family saga. Most of all, though, this is Vera's story, and Randy's: a story about the human heart, and the unbreakable human will to love.
For most of her years in New York Shelley has worked as a secretary at a university. She was long active in the clerical workers' union, helping to lead a 1988 strike. She co-founded the Lesbian & Gay Labor Network, led the labor contingent at the October 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian & Gay Rights & Action on AIDS, and spoke representing labor at the opening rally. The day before that march, she co-chaired the first-ever national gay/labor solidarity rally which was held in the lobby of the national AFL-CIO headquarters, a groundbreaking historic event.
Shelley has taken part in many other struggles, from the fight against police brutality and mass incarceration to anti-war protests to solidarity with Palestine. As an activist-writer she traveled to New Orleans in 1991 to defeat the KKK gubernatorial campaign of David Duke; Peoria and Decatur, Illinois, to stand with striking workers at Caterpillar and Bridgestone/Firestone; and Havana to attend the national congress of the Federation of Cuban Workers. She was a writer and editor for Workers World newspaper for over 20 years. She co-authored the book We Won't Be Slaves: Workfare Workers OrganizeWorkfairness & the Struggle for Jobs, Justice & Equality, published by International Action Center in 1997.
She began writing fiction and poetry in 1999. Since then her work has been
- Autor: Shelley Ettinger
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 18 Jahre
- 2015, Englisch
- Verlag: Hamilton Stone
- ISBN-10: 131144677X
- ISBN-13: 9781311446770
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2015
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- Größe: 0.46 MB
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