![]() ![]() The plot line flips between Sara and Emilie, a shy Haitian American student grappling with her identity, reluctant to leave university as she falls in and out of interests she hopes will turn her life around. Portions of the novel follow her as she runs away to Los Angeles and grows into one of the city’s best bartenders. ![]() “Yerba Buena,” intense with foggy timelines that are woven in a seemingly scattered way, begins with Sara, a 16-year-old looking for her recently missing girlfriend in a haunting small town in Northern California. In the characters’ most deciding moments, the minty scent calms and revitalizes the two characters the minty herb appears in - and sometimes leads to - magically mundane moments in this realistically heart-wrenching lovers’ tale. These two women briefly find each other in the proverbial eye of the hurricane of their tumultuous lives and choose to return to each other. ![]() In Nina LaCour’s first non-young adult novel of the same name, sprigs of the fresh-smelling plant (as well as an abstraction of the herb in the form of an eponymously-named restaurant) appear at turning points within the lives of Sara and Emilie. Yerba Buena is the Spanish name (literally translating to “good herb”) for clinopodium douglasii, a refreshingly-scented herb from the mint family that grows in abundance along the West Coast of North America. ![]()
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![]() Ohio, also decided on this day.Ī fierce opponent of censorship, Barney Rosset faced over 60 prosecutions around the country over the Tropic of Cancer, and also challenged censorship of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and other controversial works. Gerstein, in which the Court gave a brief per curium decision citing Jacobellis v. Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Millers masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its. The Supreme Court case was Grove Press v. Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation Miller, Henry, 1891-1980. The ban was finally broken in 1961 when Grove Press, run by Barney Rosset, decided to publish the book. The main cause of the ban was Miller’s use of the word “fuck” throughout the novel. Customs had barred it from being imported. ![]() His best-known novels include Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939), and the Rosy Crucifixion trilogy (Sexus, 1949, Plexus, 1953, and Nexus, 1959), all published in France and banned in the US and the UK until 1964. Published in Paris in 1934, the novel was not published in the U.S. Henry Miller (1891-1980) is one of the most important American writers of the 20th century. Last featured on BookBub on September 11, 2022. ![]() ![]() The Supreme Court ruled on this day that Henry Miller’s famous novel Tropic of Cancer was not obscene. Exhilarating (The New York Times Book Review), with over 18,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads. ![]() ![]() ![]() 2652) In the case of Britain, Salafi ideas have mostly gained a vital place mainly in London and Birmingham. While many usually refer to them as one, this led the Salafi community to reinterpret their belief through al-salaf al-salih (the pious predecessors), - a term used to describe early Muslims based on Prophet Muhammed’s saying: “The best century of my people are those of my century, then the following, then the following.”(Al-Bukhari 1400H: no. One of the most essential highlights of the book is Inge’s reflection on the use of Salafism and Wahhabism as interchangeable terms. ![]() They are all young people who are converts with no previous religious background and have learned religious matters during social gatherings at local mosques. The book begins with “Development of Salafism in Britain”, where she offers an insight into the Salafi population in the United Kingdom, which is composed of Somalis, Afro-Caribbean converts, and others who immigrated during the 1980s and empowered their ideas through socialisation at mosques. ![]() She is not only specifically looking at women in the UK Salafi community, but also giving fascinating insights into the Salafi lifestyle and their community resulting from ethnographic fieldwork and two years of interviews in London. ![]() Anabel Inge’s book has been a starting point for me to study Salafism from a woman’s perspective. ![]() |