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  <title>Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home--A Memoir</title>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the back cover reviews says, &quot;Funderberg has achieved something very remarkable in contemporary memoir: a personal narrative that is crisply intelligent rather than cleverly self-satisfied, deeply and meaningfully emotional rather than soppily sentimental.&quot;  Yeah, but something was lost in that move...the balance of analyzing the context and providing personal insights is off.  For me, there was too much time spent on the minutiae of the father's health decline and too little info on larger issues of race and family relations.  In an effort to avoid &quot;sentimentality&quot; we get more of a journalistic exploration, in my view, than a compelling memoir.]]></body>
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