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My Brilliant Friend
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Elena Ferrante
Sandra Stricker
, January 30, 2013
In a working class neighborhood of Naples in the 1950s and 60's two little girls grow up best friends. It's a story of the rise of feminism in a patriarchal culture, as relevant today as it is in villages in Pakistan, Afghanistan and many other parts of the world. Societal corruption, economic class and family loyalties challenge and shape the fates of the two friends in surprising ways. Courage and intelligence come up against traditional misogynist beliefs that support entrenched systems of power and influence. I had forgotten the way little girls think and perceive the world. The inner realities of these two young girls come alive in a way that reminded me of a way of being I had forgotten. Complex characters, beautifully written, Ferrante has a fatalistic and at the same time realistic sense of the world, and a fierce love for every part of a woman's mind and soul.
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Harry Potter 06 & The Half Blood Prince
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J K Rowling
Sandra Stricker
, January 01, 2010
All of the Harry Potter books published after 9/11 are dark. This is the darkest, and the most redemptive. It made me feel, once again, what it is like to lose the people I love most, and to survive. I believe art like this helps us prepare for the inevitable losses of our lives, and to learn what it means to be human. At the end of the series, a reader knows for sure that Harry Potter lives in her heart forever. This is a book, and a series that inspired and transformed a generation badly in need of a hero. In this dark decade, Harry Potter showed us the way to go on.
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