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“Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her…
“With a reporter’s eye for the inside story and a historian’s grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what…
“Originally founded by runaway slaves, Lakestown, New Jersey, is a Black community with a variety of classes and creeds. When plans for a new highway are routed past a nearby…
“Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan, an autobiographical account of his birth and upbringing as an untouchable, or Dalit, in the newly independent India of the 1950s, is one of the first…
“Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender battling alcoholism and burnout. While investigating the murder of an old friend, he traces clues back to the…
“A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald’s Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration…
“Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As…
“In 1985 an ambitious young Mexican-American from California’s rural San Joaquin Valley became one of the few Latinos to enter America’s most prestigious university. With…
“Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother’s happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the stepfather begins abusing her in the 1950s…
“The novel’s narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his…