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Beth Goldstein Huxen

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good story, terrible writing

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1 out of 5 stars
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1 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-08-24

characters were flat, writing was turgid and obvious. It was as if it was written by a teenager

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Extraordinary

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-23-23

I taught at Crefeld for a decade. Malo Asante graduated the year before I started, so I had heard of him, and met him a few times when he came to Crefeld to read his poetry or share time with our community. I knew his story, but it didn’t really feel it until I read/listened to it.

And wow did I feel it. It made me cry several times, and it made me gasp with deep joy. Especially the voice of his mother, who was so like my own.

Parts of this were difficult for me to listen to. The way many of the young men in his early life talked about and treated women is violent and dehumanizing. As a survivor myself much of it was triggering for me.

But I kept coming back because I saw the man Malo became when he came back to visit Crefeld, and I had read his first book of poetry, which was wonderful

I’m very glad I did. This is a story about love, about the strength of love and it’s power to lead us away from lives of brokenness and towards lives of beauty, strength and connection.

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Great Story, But sexist

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3 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-19-22

Great story, but hampered by too many sexist assumptions. All the female characters were described in terms of their sexual
Attractiveness, meanwhile the author rarely even shares the hair color of the male characters.

The people in charge are always male and calm in the face of challenging circumstances. the female
Characters are helpers and generally emotional ets.

If the author had told this exact story, and did so from a less misogynist point of view, it would have been a great read. But sexism, like racism and homophobia, is a real problem for me and for readers like me.

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Excellent Analysis

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5 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-03-18

This wonderful book fully explores the role of the media in creating, deploying and perpetuating a deeply skewed vision of Hillary Clinton, one which bore no relation to the actual Hillary Clinton. And it shows how that skewed vision cost us, the American people, a Presidency of warmth, strength and care.

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