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Lost in the City

Edward P. Jones

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Mar 21, 2019 amma.keep.reading rated it it was amazing

Shelves: readsoullit, diverse-reads-own-voices, mine-all-mine, 2019-completed-reads, a-to-z-challenge-2019, buddy-reads

As in most short story collections, I didn't enjoy all of the stories. However, I did enjoy his writing style in every single story. All of his characters are memorable and that's hard to do. As a DC resident it was fun to picture the various neighborhoods described in the book. ...more

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Jun 14, 2013 Brett rated it really liked it

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Jones describes his characters with a rich realism that makes the short stories enjoyable, even if their tone is not always upbeat. I especially got into "The Store," one of the longer stories with some character development, however the snippets of life described in "The Night Rhonda Ferguson Was Killed," "Marie," and "An Orange Line Train to Ballston" were also highlights for me. Being a metro-rider, the last of those was especially true-to-life - the woman scalding her children to sit facing ...more

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