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...February, Riverhead will publish "Miracle at Saint Ana," the hotly anticipated fiction debut of James McBride, author of the best-selling "The Color of Water." According to PW, "Set in Italy in WWII and based on the famed Buffalo Soldiers of the 92nd Infantry, ?Miracle at Saint Ana? focuses on four American Negro men, a band of partisans and an Italian boy who find redemption in the aftermath of a massacre...
What are memoirs, really, but an invitation to rubberneck at the multicar pileups in someone else's life? Rebecca Walker's foray into the genre, Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self (Riverhead Books; 320 pages; $23.95), is plenty gapeworthy. Her book teems with childhood wreckage: premature sex, reckless drug experimentation, the end of her parents' interracial marriage, and her own consistently tenuous relationships born of desperation. Interwoven are heartrending but barbed recollections of absent, distracted parents--a self-absorbed mother, writer Alice Walker, who hires someone to take her daughter clothes shopping because she is "too busy...
Trickle-down economics has not yet sunk to the places that the people in George Saunders' fiction must, for want of a better fortune, call home. The hilariously hapless heroes of the six stories in Pastoralia (Riverhead Books; 188 pages; $22.95) live as adults with their crotchety mothers or religiously obsessed sisters or a menagerie of squabbling relatives. The beleaguered breadwinner in Sea Oak works as a male stripper at Joysticks, a club with an aviation motif, and notes of his lodgings, "At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear...
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...students either sleeping or comatose in class speak volumes. If this is typical, there is no hope. It sounds as if the teachers are caretakers rather than educators. By declaring that Webster is typical, TIME does a disservice to schools across the country that are educating students. GEORGE CONKLIN Riverhead, N.Y. In the post-Littleton era, teachers and administrators no longer look the other way. Students begin to realize that cruelty has consequences. Gym class no longer means a risk of physical assault whenever the coach isn't looking. Cries for help are finally being listened to. Humanity begins...