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As if loneliness was something worth looking at. More than that, as if looking itself was an antidote, a way to defeat loneliness’s strange, enstranging spell.

So far it has been reminiscent of Philbrick’s Mayflower. I think both books were published the same year. I’m heading into the third chapter and thankfully we are shifting away from the typical New England colonial beginnings.

What a beautiful collection of short stories about post-war Vietnam and displaced Vietnamese. I want to savor it. I might even buy it.

I’m really enjoying this book. I always appreciate when a nonfiction book is written in an engaging story-like way. So much better that just throwing facts at me.

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The land does not forget. Place is a doorway through which one steps across time.

I’m enjoying this book. Lots of twisting story lines that are beginning to converge.

“If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.” (p.98)

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You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace