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The respected author Helen Papanikolas' newest, historical novel, An Amulet of Greek Earth: Generations of Immigrant Folk Culture, has been published by the Ohio University Press and is available for orders on-line directly from the publisher's web-site.
Lavishly illustrated with 120 images, 25 in color, An Amulet of Greek Earth is an impressive capstone for Helen Papanikolas's long, distinguished writing career.
We anticipate immediate and lasting interest in this book among Americans of Greek descent, scholars, historians, and general readers pulled into the colorful story of Greek immigrants in America.
You will want to read this book, and then give it to a friend to whom you've been trying to communicate some of the nuances of Greek Americanism but couldn't quite articulate them.
Helen Papanikolas has done it for you, and us.
Papanikolas has managed to bring to the reader a vivid account of the experiences and problems of immigration . . . from a Greek culture stemming back through hundreds of years to the new and brash culture of America.
Her achievement here is enormous, illuminating the Greek experience in particular while adding to the wide immigrant legacy of the nation.
She carries literary dexterity and grace to its ultimate. Being rooted in her people, she is able to probe deeply into their personal experiences and foibles with compassion and understanding.
Her subtle mastery of dialogue and description, her skill with words, and the scope of her human vision place her among the best of today's writers of genuine literature.
Evocative portraits of a people on the cusp, and of a culture in its dying but still resonant moments.
This book should be read in every Greek American household.
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