I have mixed feelings about this one. On the one hand, there are some really, really good essays in here. Wonderful insights and extremely compelling. The ones I remember most are the ones by Paul Aster, Salman Rushdie, Pico Iyer, Nadine Gordimer, and John Updike. On the other hand, there's a fai...
This story is about three children who stay with their grandmother for the day. Their mother leaves a detailed list on the refrigerator of things for the children to do, but the grandmother has her own fun plans for the day. The children spend the day listening to stories and making fudge with th...
It is time for change; slowly but inexorably the spirit of the age finds a new voice. The white lords and black subhumans begin to alter their established, longstanding social positions. From this sense of foreboding out comes Sula.The black community confined to the hills up there in a small Ohi...
1981The generation gap between the retirement-age black couple who are the servants [originally from Philadelphia] and their jetset highly educated and sophisticated niece -- perhaps foreshadows the generation gap in The Butler.A small cast of characters who all interact. Diversity in wealth, rac...