Record details

• ISBN: 9781662601637
• ISBN: 1662601638
• Physical Description: 108 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York : Astra House, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published as The properties of perpetual light by University of Guam Press, 2021.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / by Arundhati Roy -- The properties of perpetual light -- Go with the moon -- No country for eight-spot butterflies -- My mother's bamboo bracelets : a handful of lessons on saving the world -- Sherman Alexie looked me dead in the eye once -- More right -- Birthday cakes mean birthdays -- Yugu means yoke -- A crowbar and a conch shell -- The gift Anne gave me -- Nirmal Hriday -- Mugo' -- The ocean within -- We have no need for scientists -- We reach for you -- Reflections while driving -- Nikki and me -- Onion and garlic -- Fighting words -- Yeye tere -- Our father -- Gaosåli -- Curved sticks and cowry shells : a conversation between Julian Aguon & Desiree Taimanglo-Ventura.

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Aguon, Julian.
Chamorro (Micronesian people) > Guam > Biography.
Civil rights lawyers > Guam > Biography.
Chamorro (Micronesian people) > Guam > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions.
Social justice.
Environmental justice.
Social Justice
Chamorro (Peuple de Micronésie) > Guam > Conditions sociales.
Justice sociale.
Justice environnementale.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
Chamorro (Micronesian people)
Chamorro (Micronesian people) > Social conditions.
Civil rights lawyers.
Environmental justice.
Indigenous peoples > Social conditions.
Social justice.
Guam.

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