Appropriate for Freshman Composition courses. It is also intended for university or college writing/composition, English or ethnic studies courses.

This anthology offers a collection of essays and fiction by outstanding writers representing various cultures of modern American (U.S.) society. It shows how writers write for different reasons and with different styles, and how they draw on personal and collective experience as a basis for writing. Because their experience is so diverse, their writing communicates a sense of the diversity of perspectives in the "multinational" society we live in.