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...their youth, both had been dedicated communists, eager to change the world with their backpacks full of good intentions. Then God revealed himself to June, and she stopped wanting to change or even question the world. June's conversion fascinates her son-in-law. He begins to compose a memoir of her life, hinging on June's encounter with the two black dogs who rode roughshod over her idealism, tearing forth visions of good and evil, overshadowing her past secular convictions. While he composes his account of these events, the narrator is confronted by his own fears in witnessing...
...Gringolandia ("Land of the Gringo") section contains some of the most entertaining and touching stories. Piri Thomas recounts how he earned respect growing up where "sometimes you don't fit in. Like if you're Puerto Rican on an Italian block." Thomas gritty memoir recalls a childhood in the Bronx streets looking out for a "bunch of hungry alley cats that could get to their mouse anytime they wanted," "Mr. Mendelsohn" by Nicholasa Mohr recounts the story of the Suarez family through the eyes of a Jewish man watching his neighborhood turn into a Puerto Rican enclave. Nash Candelaria recounts...
...Like James Gleick's wildly successful 1987 book Chaos, each volume attempts to convey to lay readers the basics of the science as well as the excitement it is generating among its practitioners. (Mini-review: Waldrop's book, a straightforward, detailed account, succeeds admirably; Lewin's, a chatty personal memoir, does...
THAT IS THE QUESTION: TO BE OR not . . . to bop. The problem, first stated by an English playwright of some note, was rephrased and repunctuated by John Birks Gillespie in 1979 and used as the title of a free-swinging memoir. To Be or Not . . . to Bop: hip, funny, silly, fractured, rhythmic -- each word is like a snap of the fingers -- pointed, pertinent, dizzy. Very Dizzy...
...quite clearly has a chip on his shoulder." I have no chip on my shoulder at all; I have the universe on my shoulder, and she doesn't understand this. [She thinks], "Some guy with a Latino name, writing about his father--well, this must be an ethnic memoir." I'm writing about her, I'm writing about the death of her civilization. I'm writing about the fact that the Virgen of Guadalupe has appeared while she's left in Boston writing for The Boston Globe...