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Given Day
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Dennis Lehane
Sandra de Helen
, April 26, 2009
From the opening scene with Babe Ruth playing a pickup game with an African-American team, this book comes alive and never stops. Based in reality, it hums and crackles throughout its over 1,000 pages (in large print.) Dennis LeHane is on top of his game.
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Street
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, August 20, 2008
Many people have said that Ann Petry's "The Street" spoke to black women the way Richard Wright's "The Native Son" spoke to black men. I'm not black so I don't know about that, but as a woman I do know it spoke to me in a visceral way. Her main character is a woman who wants to get her son out of the violence, away from the influences of the street. The poverty, the dirt and grit and so real you can feel them. Petry made everything about the life and times come alive. It has been more than two years now since I read this book and I can see the scenes from the book as though they were right outside my door.
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