2010
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3.60
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Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Soccer balls putter down dusty streets, classmates forage through dumps for toys, while friends carry on inexplicably hopeful conversations in bread lines. This extraordinary memoir captures the essence of cultural dislocation and hope. Guruianu eloquently conveys the impact of immigration on his family, contrasting the hardships of Ceausescu's Romania with the challenges of adaptation to the United States. But in the end it is Guruianu's lyric and earnest voice that hits home in METAL AND PLUM, titled so aptly for its juxtaposing of unlike worlds and how much it hurts the heart when you go home and find that the place you knew is no longer there.
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Author
Andrei Guruianu
Author · 2 books
Andrei Guruianu (b. 1979) has lived in the United States since 1991. He earned his B.A. in English from Binghamton University and his M.S. in Journalism from Iona College. He has worked as a reporter and columnist for the Press & Sun-Bulletin in Binghamton and as a lecturer at Iona College and Ithaca College. Guruianu lives with his wife in Vestal, New York.
