American essays -- 21st century

The early twenties are a coming-of-age for many young people, as they finish their transition from adolescence into adulthood. Comprehensive Guide features five short essays depicting my quest to reorient my worldview in light of coming out as a lesbian--

This collection of essays is about the human experience of growing up. It's also about the eyes-good ones, bad ones, lost ones, new ones, eyes to see, eyes to understand, eyes to forgive, and eyes to marvel. -- abstract.

A collection of humorous essays centered on one person's sense of home. -- abstract.

Last Games traces the experiences of a twenty-six year old former college basketball player who has spent his early twenties adjusting to the loss of identity that takes place after his career ends. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island the game had been

I offer this invitation into the richly weird cacophonous wrangling in the arena of my mind. I hope you accept. Demur not at the strange, but at the obsequious, insidious commplace; there we begin to essay.--Abstract.

Prairie Passages is a narrative study of small town culture in South Dakota, told through Karl Wirsing's experiences as a community newswriter with The Pioneer Review and his summers on his family's farm near Gregory, South Dakota (population 1,342). Wirs

'Seismic Shifts' explores the phase of life 'The New York Times' recently termed, 'The Odyssey Years,' a period sandwiched between adolescence and adulthood. This collection of essays delves into the complexities of being a 20-something in 21st century A

That Kind of girl is a collection of linked nonfiction essays that chart my development from a shyly creative little girl to a seemingly fearless woman trying to take the world by storm.

The line for the women's room is full of stories. In any given department store, coffee shop, or highway rest stop, a woman might walk in on a conversation about a sultry romance, lazy husband, glamorous job, or simply unexplained tears. Although these pe

Collection of short essays that look back at the events of a young woman's life in an experimental, creative way through the use of a feministic voice.--Abstract.

This thesis is a series of linked nonfiction stories and personal essays in which the author explores her identity through relationship triumphs and relationship mishaps. The author gives an arrangement of long songs gone wrong, saturated with the author'

My goal with this essay collection is to evaluate what is lost and, therefore, gained when individual and social assumptions and definitions of language, experiences, and healing processes are challenged, reevaluated, and reconstructed.--Abstract.

Memoir-based essay collection chronicling the life experiences and wealth of lessons learned over the course of Lea McLellan's twenty-four years of life on earth.--Abstract.

Would you eat a hamburger that was grown in a test tube? Do robots make good cuddle buddies? [...] We ask and answer these and other similar questions every day, but rarely do we give them the time they deserve....These essays invite readers to consider t