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Original Essays | December 12, 2009

Alexander McCall Smith: IMG The Courage of Others



I have recently written a novel about life in England during the Second World War. I felt some concern before I tackled this theme — the War... Continue »
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    La's Orchestra Saves the World

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China Boy by Gus Lee
China Boy

Aznboi2652, June 26, 2007

The title of this book says it all. What is what like to be identified as "that" person in 1950 America. To be immersed into two cultures and wanting to retain the old ways, but desperately trying to fit into mainstream American society. This book poses this akward experience which the majority of immigrants to this country faced when they arrived.
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