| Description |
xviii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Death by gentrification / Rebecca Solnit -- i'm sick of pretending to give a shit about what whypeepo think / Danez Smith -- Notes of a native daughter / Sandra Cisneros -- Dosas / Edwige Danticat -- American work / Richard Russo -- Fieldwork / Manuel Muñoz -- For the ones who put their names on thew wall / Juan Felipe Herrera -- Trash food / Chris Offutt -- Some houses (various stages of dissolve) / Clair Vaye Watkins -- Mobility / Julia Alvarez -- Youth from every quarter / Kirstin Valdez Quade -- Outside / Kiese Laymon -- White debt / Eula Biss -- Leander / Joyce Carol Oates -- Fault lines / Ru Freeman -- We share the rain, and not much else / Timothy Egan -- Blood brother / Sarah Smarsh -- Hillsides and flatlands / Héctor Tobar -- Invisible wounds / Jess Ruliffson -- How / Roxane Gay -- Enough to lose / RS Deeren -- To the man asleep in our driveway who might be named Phil / Anthony Doerr -- Soup kitchen / Annie Dillard -- Howlin' Wolf / Kevin Young -- Looking for a home / Karen Russell -- Visible city / Rickey Laurentiis -- Portion / Joy Williams -- Apartment 1G / Nami Mun -- Happy / Brad Watson -- A good neighbor is hard to find / Whitney Terrell -- Here in a state of tectonic tension / Lawrence Joseph -- Once there was a spot / Larry Watson -- Hurray for losers / Dagoberto Gilb -- La ciudad mágica / Patricia Engel -- American arithmetic / Natalie Diaz -- The worthless servant / Ann Patchett. |
| Summary |
"In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people."--Page 4 of cover. |
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America is broken. You don't need a fistful of statistics to know this. Visit any city, and evidence of our shattered social compact will present itself. From Appalachia to the Rust Belt and down to rural Texas, the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest stretches to unimaginable chasms. Whether the cause of this inequality is systemic injustice, the entrenchment of racism in our culture, the long war on drugs, or immigration policies, it endangers not only the American Dream but our very lives. In Tales of Two Americas, some of the literary world's most exciting writers look beyond numbers and wages to convey what it feels like to live in this divided nation. Their extraordinarily powerful stories, essays, and poems demonstrate how boundaries break down when experiences are shared, and that in sharing our stories we can help to alleviate a suffering that touches so many people. |
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Equality -- United States.
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Equality -- United States -- Fiction.
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Equality -- United States -- Poetry.
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Social problems -- United States -- Fiction.
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Social problems -- United States -- Poetry.
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Social justice -- United States.
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Social justice -- United States -- Fiction.
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Social justice -- United States -- Poetry.
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Social conflict -- United States.
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Social problems -- United States.
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Social conflict -- United States -- Fiction.
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Social conflict -- United States -- Poetry.
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United States -- Ethnic relations.
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Fiction.
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United States -- Ethnic relations -- Poetry.
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United States -- Race relations.
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United States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
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United States -- Race relations -- Poetry.
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American essays.
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American poetry.
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Short stories, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Short stories.
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Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780143131038 (paperback) |
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0143131036 (paperback) |
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