The Middle of Everywhere: The Worlds Refugees Come to Our Town

PRAISE FOR REVIVING OPHELIA"An important book . . . Pipher shines high-beam headlights on the world ofteenage girls."--Los Angeles Times"Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia has the combination just right. [She] offers commonsensical, unthreatening solutions. Readers find Ophelia both heartbreaking and exhilarating."--TimePRAISE FOR THE SHELTER OF EACH OTHER"Mary Pipher is that rarity in these days of culture wars: She can talk about values without self-righteousness. She reclaims some common sense in the dialogue about family."--The Seattle Times"A canny mix of optimism and practicality gives Pipher's fans a way to resist theworst of the culture around them and substitute the best of themselves."--NewsweekPRAISE FOR ANOTHER COUNTRY"[The] combination of cultural and psychological factors is this excellent book's greatest strength. . . . She is especially acute at spotting pressure points where culture, both past and present, collides cruelly with individual emotional needs."--The Washington Post"Packs an emotional wallop . . . [Pipher] writes about the very topics, the veryfears, that many readers have dodged their whole lives."--Houston Chronicle