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Hello, Stranger: Thresholds of the Unfamiliar

Hello, Stranger: Thresholds of the Unfamiliar

Sandín-Fremaint, Pedro A.

Paperback

Series: Pandora Poetica, Book 1

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ISBN10: 1778730256
ISBN13: 9781778730252
Publisher: Pandora Press
Published: Aug 25 2025
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Before the stranger and the unfamiliar, where an epiphany might be in the offing, we rush to erect a barrier -sometimes a literal wall. Or we are regretfully prone to turn what might be a splendid possibility into a transaction, a quid pro quo.

Many are the thresholds that draw a line between us and the Other. It can be the threshold of time, of age difference, of gender and sexuality, cultural or linguistic thresholds, the thresholds of religion, race, social class, disabilities. This book approaches some of those thresholds, in a rather kaleidoscopic manner, with much earnestness, but sometimes also with humor.

Take a careful look at the art on the cover; it is a photo of the Annunciation (ca. 1445) painted by Petrus Christus, a Netherlandish artist. Now, ask yourself: What if Mary had not allowed the winged stranger to cross the threshold?

A native of Puerto Rico, Pedro Sandín-Fremaint is a retired professor of French at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and of Spanish at University of North Carolina, Asheville. He did his graduate studies in French (M.A., Georgetown University, 1974) and in Theology and Literature (Ph.D., Emory University, 1987). He has been writing rather intensely since his final retirement in 2015. Pedro lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire with his wife of 55 years, Annie, and their two dogs, Sally and Molly. Some of his non-academic publications are:

Cuentos y encuentros (Pandora Press, 2001)

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