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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Map of Ireland</em> is a slender and engaging (I read the whole thing on an intercity bus ride) work about a queer teenager who falls in adoration with her Black French teacher during the first year of busing, 1974, in South Boston.  The French teacher is not what she seems to be, and the general confusi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30693553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Painful, cleanly written story of a 16-year-old Irish-American kid from Southie, and her inner and outer struggles in 1974 Boston against the people her people fear, and her people themselves. She smacks into the discomfort of deeply inculturated racism as it seeps into her home life and her attempt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8140184">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set during the desegregation of Boston's public schools, when buses sent white kids to &quot;black&quot; schools and black kids to &quot;white&quot; schools, <em>Map of Ireland</em> is the story of an Irish-American living in the very Irish neighbourhood of South Boston, who loves to set fires and whose colo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65183968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmmm. Sometimes you read a book and then you're not quite sure what you think of it. I know I really liked this adult novel. And it sure tackles a lot of issues in its little package. Ann is an Irish girl growing up in the Boston slums in 1974. The schools just started busing and now there are blac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73025942">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is decent coming of age novel set in south Boston in 1974. It has more YA than adult appeal, I think, and deals with the topics class, race, and sexuality in <br/>(somewhat) interesting and accessible ways.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some books with a teenage narrator have an authentic voice because they are written the way most teens actually write--driven by energy, all over the place, and (in a good way) plain.  Getting to the point, despite digressions.  And some books with a teenage narrator have an authentic voice because ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46636096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book blew me away.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephanie Grant has created a flawed and quite believable character in Ann Ahern whose world of 1974 South Boston erupts when black students begin to be bused in from neighboring predominantly Black area of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Ann has always been an outsider in her own community. Having ackno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20008258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Set in Boston in the early 70s, this is the story of a city torn apart by racial hatred exasperated by newly introduced school desegregation, and of a white teen struggling with racism, her sexuality, her crush on her Senegalese French teacher, and her sexual initiation with one of the black girls o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19401222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was intresting. Took place during busing in the South. About an Irish girl in high school from her point of view. Had a crush on her French teacher and it goes on from there. Tells about her whore mother etc. Recommend to certain peeps.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent much of this book wincing at the assumptions and racism present in the situations the characters were enmeshed in.  That sort of awkwardness and discomfort can be extremely appealing when much of our world is sugar-coated and pc-ified.  For a first novel, I thought the author did an excellen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23478197">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a beautifully written book about a subject I didn't know a whole lot about (specifically bussing in south Boston and the consequences thereof) but I had such a hard time with Ann Ahern that it kind of overshadowed my appreciation of the book. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure I learned anything from this book, though it was incredlbly fast to read. Good story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An Irish teenage lesbian pyromaniac from the South of Boston in 1974 is forced to choose between her community's racist culture and the strong romantic feelings she has for a black female classmate. An introspective read that would have garnered another star from me had the author incorporated more ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20361376">more...</a>]]></body>
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