New book by Nancy Deutsch reveals the power of hope and the importance of home
 

While San Francisco's Tenderloin is infamous as a neighborhood blighted by homelessness, poverty, prostitution, and addiction, it is also a community rich in cultural diversity and human resilience. When Nancy Deutsch began working as an Artist-in-Residence at a low-income housing project in the Tenderloin, her goal was to bring together immigrant mothers, daughters, and elders so that they could share their life stories with each other and their community. Now, with the publication of Voices of Our Own, they are sharing their words with the world.

The contributors to Voices of Our Own range in age from seven to seventy-seven and speak over eleven different languages. Through journal writing, oral history, poetry, and photography, these women and children speak passionately about the meaning of home, the spirit of survival, and the power of hope.

"VOICES" Wins Documentary Award!
  "Lose yourself in the words and images of Voices of Our Own and you'll never again walk through any struggling neighborhood without seeing the richness and hearing the dreams." -- Gloria Steinem



ISBN: 0-9715320-0-1 … $24.95
Original Trade Paper
Publication Date: March 25, 2002 … 8¹ x 10¹

Available at local bookstores or by contacting From My Window Books:
nancydeutsch@earthlink.net

 

 "Reading this book, you will find sisters. In hard times, their voices give inspiration and heart." -- Maxine Hong Kingston
"Through this book, women and children speak to us with their hope, creativity, and spirit - in spite of their condition - giving us all hope for a better world." -- Dolores Huerta, cofounder and secretary-treasurer of the United Farm Workers


Also available:
Voices of Our Own: Helping Mothers, Daughters and Elders Tell Their Stories

This 100 page, step-by-step training manual is available for $20.00
( plus postage and handling)

To order, contact:
From My Window Books
c/o Nancy Deutsch
267 Fair Oaks Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
 nancydeutsch@earthlink.net

 

Voices Wins Documentary Award!
 

A special radio documentary featuring the stories and poems from women who contributed to Voices of Our Own, won the "2003 Silver Reel Award" for best local documentary. The award, presented by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, was accepted by KPFA (94.1 FM) Radio Chronicles producer Susan Stone and writer Nancy Deutsch.

For more information or copies of the program email: nancydeutsch@earthlink.net