Turning Cartwheels tells the story of Emma's desperation to join Carly's Cartwheel Club, who show off their acrobatic tricks in the playground at lunchtime. Week after week, Emma lines up for a try-out, only to be told by Carly that she hasn't made the cut. When Emma is finally accepted, she finds that ...
The first collected edition of over three decades of exquisite criticism - of art, television, film, and literature - by one of America's most beloved writers.
Roma and Gypsy economic arrangements are complexly related to social position. Authors ethnographically studied these complexities, exploring how, despite - or perhaps because of - their unstable and ambiguous position within the market economy, Roma and Gypsy communities continuously re-create more or less viable economic strategies.
