If you’re like me, the first time you knew anything about the 1921 Tulsa race riots – or race massacre – was this summer, when Trump scheduled a rally in Tulsa on June 19 (Juneteenth). Before that I was mostly unaware of this history. What happened in Tulsa is a perfect example of the way our…
This was a very intense read, and a thoughtful one. Grooms takes us into the minds of three characters who are involved in a mass lynching in Georgia in 1946 (one based on actual events). One character is Lonnie, a young white boy who sees the brutal murder of four people, one of them a…
I wasn’t quite sure what to make of White Tears, but I will tell you this: it stayed with me. I picked up this book because it was on a lot of 2017 best-of lists. It’s about Seth, an awkward young man who loves music and the technology that makes it. He meets Carter Wallace,…
Based in Romania, reading all over the world. Mostly fiction, some memoires and a little bit of poetry.
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