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30-01-2013
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Faith A. Colburn
Threshold: A Memoir
Faith A. Colburn
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Our
families
and
communities
serve
as
the
threshold
we
cross
into
our
lives.
Whether
it's
a
metaphorical
threshold
or
the
actual
physical
threshold
that
marks
our
front
door,
the
crossing
informs
who
we
choose
to
become.
This
memoir
is
a
series
of
twenty
stories
about
one
ordinary
American
family's
struggle
to
thrive
across
race
and
through
time
and
space.
From
five-year-old
Joseph
Swope
kidnapped
and
adopted
by
a
war
chief
to
my
father
blasting
up
U.S.
Highway
41
with
a
turtle
for
a
co-pilot
trying
to
save
a
marriage,
this
memoir
reveals
what
happens
when
communities
fail
and
how
they
thrive.
These
are
the
stories
of
people
who
worked
together
and
shared
resources.
There's
the
smell
of
wheat
dust
and
sweat
and
the
ozone
that
precedes
a
storm
and
there's
the
clang
of
green
beans
into
a
metal
pot
while
friends
and
family
sit
on
chairs
dragged
out
into
the
yard
where
it's
hard
to
discern
the
border
between
fireflies
and
stars.
I
can
remember
how
safe
and
comfortable
it
was
when
everybody
knew
my
name
and
they
may
not
have
always
been
glad
I
came,
but
I
knew
they
wouldn't
let
me
"go
under."
Perhaps
we
can
retrieve
that
feeling
in
a
new
century. Review:
Threshold
is
a
work
that
is
substantial
.
.
.
in
scope,
ambition,
stylistic
polish,
acumen
and
conviction.
[It
is]
a
sophisticated
achievement
.
.
.
an
excellent
example
of
the
increasingly
popular
genre
known
as
creative
non-fiction.
Threshold
is
full
of
compelling
individual
portraits—the
midwife
Grandma
Hendricks,
homely
George
Colburn,
and
the
uncaring
doctor
who
commits
an
unforgivable
atrocity
.
.
.
and
portraits
of
individuals
seeking
to
establish
the
connections
that
might
create
the
community
needed
to
enhance
life
beyond
the
survival
mode
.
.
.
.
It
is
a
refined
and
stylistically
polished
work.
Dr.
Robert
M.
Luscher,
author
In
John
Updike:
A
Study
Of
The
Short Fiction
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