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May 2008
War Wounds
Sunday, May 18, 2008
“At every meal, Vietnam sat down to dinner with our families.”--Tom Bissell, “War Wounds”
A son comes to terms with his father’s war, in a moving post-Vietnam memoir.
Odd couples
Sunday, May 11, 2008
“She was not the woman he expected to meet.”--Aimee Bender, “The Meeting.”
Two odd couples struggle with love, and a contemporary comic fable provides a wry twist on family devotion.
Discarded People
Sunday, May 04, 2008
“It’s definitely not a starter home, or a golden years home. It’s a dump, is what it is, and I decide to remain in bed for the rest of the day and maybe my life. I’ll never own a home, or be a real mother. I’ll become a bed person.”--Chris Offutt, “Second Hand.”
Outcasts, social and emotional, speak out in a regional American tale and an Iranian one.
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