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Cargando... Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land (edición 2020)por Noe Alvarez (Autor)
Información de la obraSpirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land por Noé Álvarez
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The best kind of travel memoir about how getting out of one's comfort zone (in this case, both geographically and physically) can change your perspective and your life. Álvarez turns his anger into physical pain, which transforms into a better understanding of himself. A great voice, one I look forward to hearing more. ( ) Young college man decides to leave college and find some answers to his ancestry on a 6,000 mile marathon across North America. He needs to face harsh conditions and personalities. Returning to Washington State, he decides what to do with his life. Part memoir, part coming of age in his 20s, this was a book about discovering our heritage and facing grim realities. Sometimes the topic of a book overrides and overcomes uneven writing, and Spirit Run by Noe Alvarez is one of those times. Growing up in Yakima, Washington watching his immigrant parents struggle to make ends meet, Noe always yearned for more. Still feeling like an outsider in college, he learns of a First Nations organization called the Peace and Dignity Journeys that hosts a run through North America as a means of connecting native tribes with each other and the land. Spirit Run chronicles Noe’s time with PDJ--the struggles, the triumphs, and the running. At times the writing really falters--both in subject and structure--but Alvarez does his best work when describing running, his family, and his attempts to connect with his history and himself. For me, the interesting topic and intense personal conflicts make the book a good recommendation for students or adults seeking books about running, adventure, memoir, or self-discovery. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Biography & Autobiography.
Multi-Cultural.
Sports & Recreations.
Nonfiction.
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe lvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, lvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dene, Secwepemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purepecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, lvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear-dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion-but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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