Mott Street by Ava Chin
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"Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming" is a powerful and moving narrative that traces the journey of a Chinese American family navigating the complexities of exclusion, identity, and the quest for a place to call home.
In this captivating book, the author invites readers into the lives of the Wong family, whose experiences span generations and continents. From the vibrant streets of Mott Street in New York City's Chinatown to the struggles and triumphs of immigration and assimilation, their story unfolds against the backdrop of a society marked by discrimination and prejudice.
As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her father but also the building that provided a refuge for them all.
Hardcover book
400 pages
This book is part of Hallesches Haus’s Summer 2023 selection
Family Drama
Whether you love your family or want to abolish the family, we have chosen a selection of books – novels, non-fiction, poetry and memoir – that attest to what we all know to be true: family is complicated business.
With the change of the season, at Hallesches Haus we create a new reading list full of books that inspire us on a loose topic. Whether you tend towards novels, poetry, non-fiction, self-help or genre fiction, we hope that the selection will surprise you and lead you discover a title outside your reading list.
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Mind And Body Book
€22.00
A practical and playful guide to balancing and maintaining physical and mental harmony.
The modern world can present the body as a machine that just needs to be regularly exercised. However, it is a remarkably sensitive organ in which a lot of our pain and hope is stored and that we need to interpret and handle with subtlety. This impact of our body upon our mind is something that needs to be explored as it is easy to pay attention to one more than the other and to ignore the crucial balance between the two.
Hardcover book | 248 Pages
20x14 cm
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How to Overcome Your Childhood Book
€14.00
We don’t have to remain prisoners of the past, but in order to liberate ourselves from our histories we must first become fully aware of them.
How to overcome your childhood is an English book by The School of Life about such a liberation. We learn about how character is developed, the concept of ‘emotional inheritance’, the formation of our concepts of being ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and the impact of parental styles of love on the way we choose adult partners. We learn too about how we might evolve emotionally and, in particular, how we may sometimes need to have a breakdown in order to have a breakthrough.
We are left with a powerful sense that building up an emotionally successful adult life is possible so long as we reflect with sufficient imagination and compassion on what happened to us a long while back.
Topics Include:
- Emotional Inheritance – How emotional problems are handed down from parent to child
- The Golden Child Syndrome – How too much love from our parents can be just as damaging as too little
- Over-Achievement – How we compensate for emotional neglect through worldly success
- Splitting – How we fail to reconcile between the good and bad aspects of our parents
- Soothing – How we still require the kinds of affection we received as children
- Becoming an Adult – How recognising our immaturity is the key to growth
Content: Hardback book | 118 pages
Dimensions: 115 x 185 x 15 mm
Language: English
Hand Painted Tree Hugger Leather Bookmark
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Hand-painted and foil-embossed vegetable tan leather With 'Tree Hugger' embossed on the reverse. Each one is a completely unique combination of colours.
Ark Colour Design was founded in 2015, when they set about creating products which are fun and affordable, but also well-made. All their products are made by a small family-run manufacturer in Scotland. The leather is processed in their on site tannery and then cut and foil embossed to our designs. Because every piece is hand-finished with embossing, each one is unique to the next.
Made by hand in the Cambridge studio.
Height 20cm
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