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...about finding the "middle ground among extremes." "In America," says Kwan, "I am free to choose any definition oflife I please." Perhaps, but I certainly hope I am not free to act on any definition of life I please. A great many American citizens once held that people of darker skin tone were somehow less than human beings, and therefore to be enslaved or disposed of as those Americans saw fit; fortunately, such people were eventually prevented from acting on their particular definition of human life. I am not free to redefine life as excluding the old, the infirm...
...former classmate of Ennis' at Morehouse College, I can confirm that every positive, wonderful thing that has been printed about him is true. He was an exceptional person, and the world is a darker place for his passing. DAVID BRANTLEY III North Brunswick, New Jersey...
...comes a darker novel, Cloud Chamber (Scribners; 316 pages; $24). It is a sequel of sorts, though Rayona appears only at the end. She's still 15 and untroubled by romance, still living with her crusty Aunt Ida on the reservation in Montana. Her father turns up in the last chapters with a couple of elderly white ladies who are, surprisingly, his Irish-American mother and his aunt. By this time the novel has traced Rayona's tangled lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rose Mannion, a formidable immigrant from Ireland. The author follows a chain of matrimonial disasters involving...
...former classmate of Ennis' at Morehouse College, I can confirm that every positive, wonderful thing that has been printed about him is true. He was an exceptional person, and the world is a darker place for his passing. DAVID BRANTLEY III North Brunswick, New Jersey Why did you resort to using photographs of a grieving family and a body bag? Can't you trust the written story to bring the images to life? CATHY JAMES Indianapolis, Indiana...
SEVEN HUNDRED FEET BELOW the beauty of Central Park, "sandhogs" toil in darkness and cold, hammering through rock and laying the foundation for famous skyscrapers and sewer lines. Seven hundred feet below the lights of Time Square, the darker side of the New York City underworld surfaces in Thomas Kelly's first novel, Payback, a look into the opulent 80s construction business that thrived on Reaganomics and mob violence. Kelly, who worked for ten years as a sandhog before graduating from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, brings his own underground expertise to a sordid story of hard men, hard...