Bøger af Katya Cengel

Katya Cengel covers her time as a recent college graduate reporting from the former Soviet Union in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Riga, Latvia, shortly after the fall of Communism.

"Katya Cengal became patient number 090 71 51 at the Roth Psychosomatic Unit at Children's Hospital at Stanford in 1986. She was 10 years old. Katya's young age set her apart from the other--mostly teenage--children on the psychosomatic unit: anorexic girls became her babysitters, non-compliant diabetic boys were her big brothers. Instead of learning her multiplication talbes, Katya learned how to throw up. The bulimic teens taught her that. Visitors from other units showed her how to be ashamed. Hospital staff put her in a straitjacket--and on anti-psychotic medication. Her young age, the length of her stay, and her lack of diagnosis inspired a rare intimacy in staff and patients, allowing Katya to penetrate a hidden world more deeply than most. Thirty years later Katya, now a journalist, tracks down the doctors, psychologists and counselors who once cared for her. What happened to her as a child is told in the voice of the troubled 10-year-old girl she once was. The two narratives unfold simultaneously. The result is a gut-wrenching account of childhood mental illness told from the inside interspersed with updates from experts in the field"--Rear cover.

The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their remarkable stories together into a single moving narrative—one that reveals a disquieting cycle of violence, safety, and loss.

Forget the steroid-addled, overpaid, and unmotivated players: America's pastime is still alive and well, and is still the heartfelt sport it's always been - in the Minor Leagues. And nowhere is this truer than in Kentucky, whose rich baseball history continues to play out in the four teams profiled in this book.

The story of four Cambodian families as they confront deportation forty years after their resettlement in the United States. Katya Cengel weaves their remarkable stories together into a single moving narrative-one that reveals a disquieting cycle of violence, safety, and loss.