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Drinking water Contamination Social aspects Michigan Flint Female friendship Female friendship Fiction Michigan Flint Red Cross and Red Crescent Red Cross and Red Crescent Fiction Red Cross and Red Crescent Michigan Flint Biography Volunteers Women World War, 1939-1945 Women FictionHardin, David
Summary: "A brief, elegant memoir of the author's work as a Red Cross volunteer delivering emergency water to residents of Flint, Michigan, Standpipe sets the struggles of a city in crisis against the author's personal journey as his mother declines into dementia and eventual death. Written with a poet's eye for detail and quiet metaphor, Standpipe is an intimate look at one man's engagement with both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARDIN, DAVE HARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI South HardinUrrea, Luis Alberto
Summary: 1943. Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York and heads to Europe with the Red Cross. She makes friends with Dorothy Dunford, and they become part of the Donut Dollies: providing camaraderie and a taste of home at the front lines before the troops head into battle. Seeing service from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, Irene develops friendships which help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown & Company 2023