Bibliography/Links
The Book of the Year Committee offers the following research links as a tool for students, faculty, and community members to further explore issues associated with the novel. We realize that this is only a very small sampling of weblinks; however, if you find excellent links, please feel free to send them to us, and we'll post them.
Also note that the Committee is aware that the novel touches upon controversial topics, and so you'll find links below represent some aspects of those controversies; however, we have tried to present a balanced view upon such controversies--preferring to inform rather than to indoctrinate.
General Information on the author:
Overview of the Novel and Kent Haruf and interview with the author
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1199/haruf/Interview with Kent Haruf about his Peace Corps Service
http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/9911/911talkharuf.htmlTeenage Pregnancy:
Planned Parenthood's search engine provides a wide variety of articles on teen pregnancy:
http://plannedparenthood.org.master.com/texis/master/search/?q=teen+pregnancy&s=SSA pro-life website with first person accounts from teens who have had
abortions, as well as other resources:
http://www.standupgirl.com/
Teen pregnancy: overall trends and state-by-state statistics:
http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/teen_preg_stats.htmlLatino Issues Forum provides information about teen pregnancy and a
variety of other links relating to California and the USA :
http://www.lif.org/health/teen_preg.htmlAlan Guttmacher Institute: Trends & lessons learned in teen pregnancy:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_1-02.htmlCenter for Disease Control & Prevention: A variety of articles concerning
teen pregnancy:
http://search.cdc.gov/search97cgi/s97is.dll?queryText=teen+pregnancies&SortField=score&Action=FilterSearch&Collection=CDCALL1&ResultTemplate=nsearchresult.hts&filter=newsearch.htsAnnie E. Casey Foundation Search Engine results for Teen Pregnancy:
http://www.aecf.org:8765/query.html?qt=+teen+pregnancies&col=global&charset=iso-8859-1&ht=0&qp=&qs=&qc=&pw=100%25&ws=0&la=en&qm=0&st=1&nh=10&lk=1&rf=0&oq=&rq=0&si=0Life in Small Town USA:
Small-Town America: a catalogue of stereoscopic views:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/nyplhtml/dennhome.htmlThe Small Town Center provides information on research & design relating to small communities nationwide:
http://smalltown.sarc.msstate.edu/An article entitled "The Second Coming of the American Small Town" about the trend amongst Americans to resist the urban and suburban experience:
http://user.gru.net/domz/duany.htmA website dedicated to small town newspapers in the USA:
http://www.smalltownpapers.com/Humguide's listing of local community websites
http://www.humguide.com/category.php?cat_id=22Families: Information on both traditional and non-traditional families
An Associated Press article on recent trends in American families:
http://home.acadia.net/userpages/closter/A Gannett News Service article on more recent trends in American families:
http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/communities/census2000/20010523/622078.htmlDon't trust the media report of the 2000 Census? Find out for yourself about recent trends in the USA at the Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov/main/www/cen2000.htmlA listing of website related to non-traditional families:
http://www.pampetty.com/families.htmA critique of the Census Bureau and the media in relation to traditional family decline:
http://www.familyfirst.org/marriagematters_2001/stateofourunions1001.pdfMental Health & Families:
Mental health resources on the web for families:
http://www.rfmh.org/nki/mhguide.pdfChildren, Youth, and Family Consortium: Mental health and families:
http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/policy/issues/briefings/mentalhealth.htmlNational Mental Health Association: Children and Families:
http://www.nmha.org/children/index.cfmA mental health activist's website with numerous links:
http://juice.angelcities.com/mh.htm