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text 2020-06-02 16:32
The Other Americans: A Venn Diagram
The Other Americans - Laila Lalami The Other Americans - Laila Lalami
The Moor's Account: A Novel - Laila Lalami
There There - Tommy Orange
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Laila Lalami was supposed to visit our university in March; of course, the event was cancelled, as most things have been since that time. But in preparation, I read two of her novels. 

 

The first, "The Moor's Account" is a tour-de-force historical epic framed from the point-of-view of the slave, who gets just a line in the official sixteenth century account. I was blown away.

 

The second, "The Other Americans," is a contemporary family story. With blurbs from J.M. Coetzee and Viet Thanh Nguyen, Lalami needs no additional praise from me.

 

But let me do this: I will draw you a Venn Diagram of the mind. In the intersection of a book like Tommy Orange's "There, There," in which each chapter switches to a different character's point-of-view to tell a part of the story, and a book like Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Namesake," which tells the story of an immigrant family's experiences building a life in the United States of our time, lives "The Other Americans." 

 

Of course, "The Other Americans" is its own story. And "There, There" and "The Namesake" are just two examples of many that could work in this model. But they are the ones that came to mind. It's a fun exercise. 

 

In the end, I recommend both of these Lalami books unreservedly. Try them. Expand your circles. 

 

-cg

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text 2019-12-01 21:55
Freebie Kid book round up
Champ and Nessie - Zebulan Frayne,Sherry Frayne
The 12 Days of a Great White Christmas - Chris Bresky,Chris Bresky
I Spy Christmas: I Spy Christmas Book for Kids - J. K. Nawara
The Sun and the Moon - Kibaek Jeon,Nayun Kim
Jade's Life Skills Series - Learning Manners or To Fart Or Not To Fart (Children's Life Skills Series) - Asaf Shani
What The Fox Learnt: Four Fables from Aesop - Aesop,Ripple Digital Publishing
Unicrosn, Magic, and Slime - Misty Black
Diaries of a Dragon - Beatriz Rare
Once Upon and Ever After - Caroline L. Thornton
Sophia and the Popcorn Dragon - Tommy Walker

Stand outs in this group are

 

12 Days of Great White Christmas - parody of the 12 days using sharks.  It includes a fact section at the end.  It's quite well done and fun. 5 stars.

 

Diaries of a Dragon - I wasn't sure about this one, but the artwork and the story match each other pretty darn well. It was sweet. 3.5 stars

 

Once Upon and Ever After - most likely the best of this batch.  5 stars.  It deals with how the prince is affected by sterotypes as well as princesses.

 

What the Fox Learnt - pretty good retellings of Aesop tales about foxes.  Three stars.

 

Champ and Nessie - actually makes good use of Nessie and Champ to teach about earth history. 3 stars

 

Sun and the Moon - good retelling of the Korean tale.  3 stars

 

Sophia and the Popcorn Dragon - a bit too cute, but woc so that was cool.  3 stars.

 

Unicorns, Magic and Slime -predictable but fun.  3 stars

 

Dollhouse Elf -(not pictured) not bad, predictable. 

 

To be missed

 

The farting book - the whole thing about dad working around in his boxers was a bit strange.

 

I Spy - the word scarf is missed spell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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review 2019-07-31 22:15
Heartbreaking story about Native American Indians.
There There - Tommy Orange

There, There, Tommy Orange, author; Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Ceurvo, Kyla Garcia, narrators

This is a good novel, but it is very heavy, so readers beware, be prepared. It is not a feel good book. It will take you places you might not want to go. The Native American Indian experience is explored with intuition and insight in such a way as to make the reader feel their pain, frustration, needs, loss, and hopes. The Indians suffer from the alcoholism, racism, unemployment and other ills that society brought to them.

There, There is about where there means. Where is there for them. For the Indian, the land was everywhere. The land was theirs. There were no boundaries; they lived where they found food and could provide shelter for themselves. The Indians love their heritage and try to preserve it with powwows held regularly. In this book, the powwow goes awry with a terrible and tragic event. The book leaves the reader with many thoughts that are unfulfilled. There are no solutions and no firm conclusions. Everything is up in the air as the reasons that poor choices were made are revealed and the consequences are explored.

Each of the characters had a flaw that changed their lives, each also suffered from deprivation of some kind, mistreatment of some kind, confusion and a knowledge that there were secrets in their lives that if revealed might hurt them even if they also set them free. The Native Americans were influenced by superstition, folk lore and the painful memories of what they had once had and lost when they were driven from their land. The book seemed to be about hopelessness, but then hope would appear on the horizon, only to be followed by despair and inevitable failure. There were some wasted lives, forgotten dreams, and nightmares that became real when circumstances merged to bring about catastrophe. Although they tried to rise above their problems, they were often driven back down by circumstances beyond their control.

The novel is well written, but it is hard to read because of its intensity. It is deep and dark. There are so many characters, it is often hard to follow and remember which one was experiencing the current trauma, but the overall effect of the story certainly makes the reader think about the plight of the Native American Indian and the injustices they were forced to endure. Death and disaster have unfairly followed them.

What does there, there mean in this novel? It is used in several instances with different meanings. I wondered what was really there, in the end, was there hope or hopelessness? Was there the place to which they wished they could return? Was it a nameless vast expanse where they could settle once again to practice their tribal customs and dance without the encroachments of modern society or did they wish to join the technological world we live in today?

Because this is the kind of book that a reader might want to reread or review certain parts, I believe a print book is better than the audio.

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review 2019-05-30 18:59
Good Read
There There - Tommy Orange

There are people who wonder why the need for diverse books exists. Sometimes they can admit that there are not enough minorities in works of fiction, but that is usually followed by something along the lines of “minorities should write them then”. Combine that with the issue of approbation and these same people then add something like “why should white men write about other groups when they always combine it is wrong”. Of course, that is the answer to the question itself. But a book like this is another answer as well.

Good literature is both unique and all embracing. There is a reason why we still read Hamlet and Chaucer today, and it is not simply because English teachers brain washed everyone. Hamlet may have been written by a dead white guy and is about a rich white guy in a really crappy situation. Yet the questions he poses, his internal struggles resonate with everyone.

The thing is that only using white guys to showcase the things that every one feels implies that everyone has the same struggles and attacks them in the same way. In other words, it is the same story with small changes.

Books like There There have that same timeless aura. But like many books by diverse authors, it is those timeless issues as seen through a different culture, class, race, nationality, or gender. This isn’t to say that x’s struggle is worth more than y’s struggle. But you do not understand or emphasize with people unless you learn about them. Diverse books, movies, and television shows allow that to happen.

There There is about a varied group of people, mostly (but not entirely) Cheyenne, who all converge on the Big Oakland Powwow. It deals with issues that are unique to the Indigenous segment of the population, but also touches on those issues that every single part of the American population is dealing with – violence and drugs.

The group of people whom the novel focuses on includes men and women, and one character suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome. Some of them are struggling with substance abuse issues, some with identity issues, some with the aftereffects of crime. All are struggling with colonialism.

The pacing is slightly slow in the beginning. It starts with history and but quickly move to today. Slowly but surely the threads of the story are tied together. It is not a perfect book but it is darn close.

The story is part of the tapestry of American life

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