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Newsletter #329

August 1, 2022

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3 books featured in this issue

Cover of Homesickness

Homesickness

by Col

MADE-UP

One of the challenges for a writer of short stories is to resist the tidiness that their compact form seems to demand, and evoke the full messiness of life while still telling a tale. Messy is somethi... (Tom)

Cover of Ma and Me: A Memoir

Ma and Me: A Memoir

by Putsata Reang

TRUE

Reang was her mother's youngest, with a special bond founded between them when she barely survived their escape from the war and the coming genocide in Cambodia in her mother's arms in 1975. But once... (Tom)

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Proud Shoes

by Pauli Murray

TRUE Phinney by Post #91

Murray's life story is a remarkable one, as an often behind-the-scenes influence on the Civil Rights Movement, a co-founder of the National Organization for Women, and one of the first women ordained... (Tom)

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