Böcker av Emma Anderson

A collection of thoughts, feelings, stories, and moments in time.

Clara är 24 år och stenpank. Det är sommar och det sista Clara vill är att sitta hemma och uggla hela semestern. Slumpen leder henne in på en eskort-sajt och där börjar hon skriva med en 31-årig man. Han säger att han ska ta med henne på semester och köpa nya kläder åt henne, i utbyte mot sex. Clara bläddrar igenom hans bilder, och ju mer hon ser desto mer upphetsad blir hon ...Resten av semestern tillbringar Clara och mannen ute på en privat ö i skärgården. Lusten tycks aldrig sina, och vad som såg ut att bli livets tråkigaste sommar blir raka motsatsen. Emma Anderson är pseudonym för en författare från västkusten verksam inom flera genrer. I Emmas noveller är passionen och hettan i fokus. Det lyckliga slutet kan låta dröja på sig men utlovas, i en eller annan form. Intentionen är att skapa lustfyllda bilder och att ta med läsaren ut på ett erotiskt äventyr.

In the 1640s, eight Jesuit missionaries met their deaths at the hands of native antagonists. With their collective canonization in 1930, these men became North America's first saints. Emma Anderson untangles the complexities of these seminal acts of violence and their ever-changing legacy across the centuries. While exploring how Jesuit missionaries perceived their terrifying final hours, she also seeks to comprehend the motivations of those who confronted them from the other side of the axe, musket, or caldron of boiling water, and to illuminate the experiences of those native Catholics who, though they died alongside their missionary mentors, have yet to receive comparable recognition as martyrs. In tracing the creation and evolution of the cult of the martyrs across the centuries, Anderson reveals the ways in which both believers and detractors have honored andpreserved the memory of the martyrs in this "e;afterlife,"e; and how their powerful story has been continually reinterpreted in the collective imagination. As rival shrines rose on either side of the U.S.-Canadian border, these figures would both unite and deeply divide natives and non-natives, francophones and anglophones, Protestants and Catholics, Canadians and Americans, forging a legacy as controversial as it has been enduring.

Anderson uses one man's compelling story to explore the collision of Christianity with Native religion in colonial North America. Pastedechouan's story illuminates struggles to retain and impose religious identity on both sides of the 17th-century Atlantic, even as it has relevance to the contemporary encounter between native and nonnative peoples.