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Joyce Zonana

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/bhavani

born

July 20, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt

gender

female

website

http://joyce.zonana.googlepages.com

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Religion & Spirituality, Women & Gender Studies

influences

Maxine Hong Kingston, George Eliot, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Eliz...more

member since

July 2008

About this author

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I've been a reader and a writer for as long as I can remember. Born in Cairo and raised in New York City, I've lived in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Oklahoma, and New Orleans. Since 1985 I've been teaching writing and literature at various colleges and universities. I'm currently living in Brooklyn, teaching at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and taking yoga classes at the Integral Yoga Institute. My memoir, which grew out of my realization that all my academic writing was really about myself, is an attempt to give voice to the many parts of my complex identity.

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Books by Joyce Zonana

Average rating: 4.40 · 25 ratings · 10 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey 4.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Dream Homes: From Cairo to Katrina, an Exile's Journey 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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Joyce is currently reading:

Arabian Nights and Days

by Naguib Mahfouz

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Aug 06, 2008 02:47pm

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A History of the Modern Middle East

by William L. Cleveland

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Aug 06, 2008 02:13pm

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Joyce is now friends with Maria
Oct 12, 2009 08:12pm
Joyce gave to: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd	My rating:
May 06, 2009 06:03pm
Joyce gave to: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson	My rating:
May 06, 2009 06:03pm
Joyce gave to: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson	My rating:
one of my favorite books of all time. utterly original and haunting.
May 06, 2009 06:03pm · see review
Joyce gave to: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama	My rating:
I listened to this on cd; I couldn't "put it down"/"turn it off" -- mesmerizing and beautiful and wonderfully complex. To think we have a president who has read postcolonial and feminist theory!
May 06, 2009 06:02pm · see review
Joyce added: The Reincarnationist (Reincarnationist, #1) by M.J. Rose (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
May 06, 2009 06:00pm
Joyce said "yes" to attending the event: Artist-in-Residence date: April 14, 2009 12:00PM location: University of Minnesota at Duluth, University of Minnesota at Duluth, Duluth, MN, The United States description: I will be visiting classes, holding workshops, and doing public readings on April 14th and 15th.
Mar 13, 2009 08:56pm
Joyce made a comment on Lynn Wilson's review of One Writer's Beginnings "This is a wonderful book, Lynn. You'll love it! "
Feb 21, 2009 04:53pm · see review
Joyce gave to: One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets by Bliss Broyard	My rating:
I couldn't put this down. I grew up reading Anatole Broyard's book reviews in The New York Times; reading his story opened a window into my own early life; and of course learning more about Creole culture in New Orleans was extraordinarily fascinatin...more
Nov 02, 2008 06:26am · see review
Joyce gave to: My Place by Sally Morgan	My rating:
Sep 11, 2008 08:20pm