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Description: The generation gap in the Japanese-American community is the subject of this novel. The protagonist is Wil, a 20-year-old woman suffering from depression due to a broken love affair and an abortion. As she wallows in her depression, Wil reflects that her problem, diagnosed by doctors in California as bi-polar disorder, would in the days of her grandparents have been called weakness of character.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1995]
Call number: 655267
Creator: Uyemoto, Holly(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 052593779X; 9780525937791
Provenance: From the Hong family library.; Signed by author on title page.
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When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife work together to make his final days comfortable. Their daughter, Lorraine, comes home from Denver to help look after Dad, which helps to soften the bitter absence of the Lewis's estranged son, Frank. Next door, young Alice lives with her grandmother, and Dad's condition stirs painful memories of her own mother's death. Meanwhile, the town's newly arrived preacher attempts to mend his strained relationships with his wife and teenaged son, a task that proves all the more challenging when he faces the disdain of his congregation after offering more than they are accustomed to getting on a Sunday morning. And throughout, an elderly widow and her middle-aged daughter do everything they can to ease the pain their friends and neighbors are suffering. Bracing, sad and deeply illuminating, Benediction captures the fullness of life by representing every stage of it -- including its extinction -- as well as the hopes and dreams that sustain us along the way.

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Papers of Eleanor Bissell and family

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A one volume guest book, an autograph album, three slides, one piece of correspondence and a college diary are the only items in the collection that specifically pertain to Mary Eleanor Bissell. The remainder of the collection concerns her relatives, the most prominent of whom are her great-grandparents, Eleanor Mills Bissell and Thomas Bissell (fl. 1796-1848). The collection contains around forty pieces of correspondence relating to her great-grandparents as well as over a hundred items relating to the Bissell family business. The business papers include court summons, bills of sale, receipts, promissory notes, quit-claim deeds and an account book, all dated between 1738 and 1836. The collection also contains documents on the genealogy of the Bissell family in Windsor as well as eighteen photographs of family and friends.

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Bissell, Eleanor. Autograph album

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Mills, Timothy. [Account Book], Baltimore, Maryland

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Bissell, Eleanor. Guest book for 580 Prospect Boulevard, Pasadena

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