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This Is How You Lose Her
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Diaz, Junot
Pamela Erbe
, January 30, 2013
The voice Junot Diaz gives to the Dominican immigrants in this brilliant collection of stories is authentic and in your face, plaintive and heartbreaking, and never maudlin or sentimentalized. The Dominicans themselves are the same. Somewhere between hip-hop and Shakespeare--Diaz has the most interesting voice in American fiction.
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Warmth Of Other Suns The Epic Story Of Americas Great Migration
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Isabel Wilkerson
Pamela Erbe
, January 02, 2011
A brilliant and passionate history of the Great Migration--a phenomenon that has been seriously overlooked and neglected. I learned so much about a subject I thought I understood--the Jim Crow South--and also about the responses to the migration in the northern cities that led eventually to ghettoes and a permanent underclass. But what I loved most about this beautifully written book was that I could not put it down. Because Wilkerson based her history in the lives of three individuals, whose chronicles form the spine of the narrative, the book reads like a novel, and the too-often dry details of history come alive on the page. Without a doubt, the best book among a lot of excellent books I read this year.
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Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
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Garrison Keillor
Pamela Erbe
, December 13, 2008
In the great American tradition of personal political tracts, Garrison's statement of faith in the basic values of democracy is a gem. The perfect antidote to dirty politics, pay-to-play politics, and the corporate-political complex, this great little book makes the case for power to the people.
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