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I’ll let readers judge that for themselves. However, facts are stubborn no matter how what our wishes. The massacre of Jews in Europe cannot be denied. Likewise, brutalities of the state of Israel against Palestinian refugees is well documented. For example, the Israeli government concluded that Ariel Sharon was responsible for allowing the Phlalangists’ massacre of thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in 1982. This led to calls for him to be tried as a war criminal. Yet, amazingly, he was elected Prime Minister about 20 years later. The first step in putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes is to take off our own shoes. Overall, “The Lemon Tree” is incredibly enriching and one of the best books that I have read in a long time. Thank you Sandy Tolan!

This is a wonderful-true-tale of real people who are trying very hard to live a life of peace. The issues are so complicated, and there are merits to both tales. A must read for anyone who would work to seek a solution to the Palestinian problem.

I rarely read a non-fiction book that is a page-turner. This is the rare one. The Lemon Tree had me wanting to come home after work and pick up my reading where I had left off. This book manages to present the extremely complicated events of the last 60 years of the Palestenian/Israeli conflict in a narrative that informs while also being extremely moving. The Lemon Tree contains detailed information based on first hand research about Israeli policies towards Palestinians that are often glossed over for fear of offending. I hope that Sandy Tolan’s impressive research insulates this important historical book from being viewed as a anti-Israeli work. By telling the history of the region through the eyes of 2 real individuals, one an Israeli survivor of the Holocaust and the other a Palestinian who lost his home and town to Israel, Tolan humanizes history in a way that gives one a sense of hope.

Tolan does a good job of intertwining the relevant history with the story. Although it is history, it is written more like a novel, with flashback and emphasis on the story while the occasional footnote and references are buried in the back. It is a gripping story and I didn’t put it down until I was finished. Regarding comments of pro-Palestinian bias, I don’t believe the book misrepresents the Israeli position or misrepresents the history surrounding the founding of Israel, the 1948 War, the 1967 war, or the intifidas. He lets Dalia make the Israeli case in her own words for the most part, and she is about as reasonable as one can get. If Tolan went to the right wing of Israeli society, the case gets worse and more unreasonable, not better. I just think that Americans are so used to seeing the conflict through Israeli eyes, that a more balanced approach is bound to seem “biased.” Tolan doesn’t lionize the Palestinians either, but it is difficult to escape the reality that even the most reasonable Palestinian is in a bad position and often in a situation where there are no good choices. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

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“The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” is a great collection of short stories and the perfect starting point for those unfamiliar with the works of Sherman Alexie. Alexie was born and raised on the Spokane Indian reservation in Washington, and many of these stories are based off of real experiences from his time there. The topics this book covers range from alcoholism, relationships between a father and son, and traditional American Indian culture, something that these people are losing more and more as the years go by. The stories mainly follow a Spokane Indian named Victor. The stories in the book are all independent of each other, they only share people and setting. In some of the stories, Victor is a little boy witnessing the evils of alcoholism and its effects on the people living on the reservation. In some others, he interacts with his father. Some of the stories also include a character named Thomas Builds-the-fire, a childhood friend of Victors who is known, but not necessarily liked, on the reservation for his ability to tell stories in the vein of traditional Indian storytelling.

"Nobody has it worse than the Indians," he says. "They’re all dead!" No, not quite, Chris. Deliberately wounded by long-standing government policy, yes. Demonized and ignored by a "dominant" history, yes. Suffering, yes. But they still survive, human as the rest of us–with faults, foibles, and feelings, nightmares and dreams–and they’re championed by one of their own, a writer with a singular voice who tells modern day Indian stories with clarity, style, perception and wit. This book opens a door to consciousness. A highly recommended read.

Alexie is a masterful writer. The images in the title story, “A Drug Called Tradition” and “The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire” are not only beautiful but compelling. An inspiring read.

Good thing. Why? Because he tricked me–he still held an ace up his storytelling sleeve. "Hope feeds among the tombs," Melville wrote. "Always darkest before the daylight," goes the tireless adage we’ve all heard somewhere from our elders. "That’s how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic," says the narrator in one of Alexie’s stories ("Jesus Christ’s Brother is Alive and Well on the Spokane Indian Reservation"). "Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye . . . no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I’ll never tell you and I’ll never show you the same trick twice." Might be Alexie begins his sleight of hand with the (deliberately) Kafka-esque tale of the trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire, "misfit storyteller" who can still feel the pulse of tradition within him and stubbornly refuses to disown it.

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Lisa See’s path to discover where and how she fits in in this gifted, and far from ordinary immigrant American family is as much your story as it is hers. Her writing is fresh and alive enough to hold your interest and make you want to hear more from and about this author. Her mother is Carolyn See, who has written a little about Lisa’s history in her own book, Dreaming: Good Luck and Hard Times in America. Look over both books and be prepared to hunker down for a while.

This was the second book I read from Lisa See and I was so enchanted with her sytle and informative insights. This was a pleasure to read and I couldnt put it down. It is both captivating and informative. Often hidden from our eyes this culture is opened up and seen from the inside out. I recommend it highly. LOVE IT! You will too.

I am a long-time fan of Ms See’s novels, but never got around to reading “On Gold Mountain”, which is a work of non-fiction. Well, after reading it, I have to say that I found Ms See’s account of her family’s history interweaved with California’s history in the late 19th and 20th centuries to be fascinating, and Ms See’s meticulous research shows through her work. Lisa See is only one-eight Chinese, but has always been exposed to the elements of traditional Chinese culture, having spent a great deal of her formative years in L.A.’s Chinatown, surrounded by her Chinese family members. Thus, her account of her family [on the Chinese side] is both credible and compelling. Besides, Ms See also draws her material from numerous interviews with her Chinese family members, as well as journeying to the family village in China, amongst others. See’s great-great-grandfather, Fong Dun Shung migrated from China to the US aka Gold Mountain with his two sons in 1867. Later, See’s great-grandfather, Fong See [Dun Shung's fourth son] arrives in the US and works his way to becoming a prominent member of society & founding father of L.A.’s Chinatown.

I have read several dozen books on Asian-American culture, and this rates in the top three. Her unflinching recollection of her family history is captivating. I found it especially meaningful, because my family frequented several of the places mentioned in the book.

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I read “In the Land of Invisible Women” a few months ago and was touched by the book. It was beautiful. I am Catholic but I now have a great respect for the Muslim faith. So many questions I had were answered as well as questions I didn’t even think of. It is one of the very best books I have ever read.

Having previoulsy read a number of books about the inhumane treatment of women by radical Islam groups, I picked up “In the Land of Invisible Women.” Dr. Ahmed’s story far exceeded my expectations. Her book was the next best thing to experiencing the Saudi lifestyle and culture firsthand. She does a superb job of illustrating a technologically advanced, sophisticated, and wealthy country that tolerates completely archaic treatment of the female gender–in spite of their invaluable contribution to society. Dr. Ahmed’s story compels the reader to ponder the differences between cultures, the prejudices that do not escape the educated, and a government that tolerates such unfounded behavior. Thank you, Dr. Ahmed for increasing the world’s awareness of this unfortunate dilemma.

Dr. Ahmed shares her inspirational journey to the Kingdom and we, her readers, are fortunate to be taken along as her guests for an amazing trip as she opens our eyes to the beauty of the people of Sudia Arabia and a deepening understand of her religion. This is a very well written book. Dr. Ahmed is an expert at interweaving her own personal story with the extraordinary men and women who struggle daily to make changes to the Kingdom. The last two chapters are very revealing to the reader, we see Dr. Ahmed emerge as a very confident, strong Muslim woman at peace with herself and her religion. This inspirational journey will leave the reader with a greater understanding, respect and tolerance of her religion and the people of Saudi Arabia.

simply amazing, i love the details and scenes she described. amazing made me feel as if i was on the SA flight to Riyadh. haha the ending was a classic move!

My book club read this book for November. I LOVED this book. Very well written, very eye-opening. Absolutely fascinating book. I think that the more Americans read this book, the better we will begin to understand others. I knew a little bit about Saudi Arabia and Islam, and the book was very educational for me. I found the stories of various Saudi women riveting, and loved reading about how different events and meeting different people changed Qanta’s views of herself, Saudi men, Saudi women, Islam, etc. Medical descriptions were interesting but not overwhelming or too difficult for “lay people” (like myself) to understand. I highly recommend it, and love the ending!

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Book Review for Enrique’s Journey Enrique’s Journey, by Los Angeles Times reporter Sonia Nazario, is the story of a young Honduran boy traveling alone to be reunited with his mother in the US, whom he has not seen in eleven years. It recounts the harrowing obstacles and dangers that he faces on this incredible voyage. This Pulitzer Prize winning book puts a human face on the the whole immigration issue showing why Central Americans and Mexicans persist in coming to this country despite immense difficulties. It also shows the emotional toll on families who separated, not knowing when or if they will be reunited. The author, who herself retraced Enrique’s footsteps, makes his journey come vividly alive and the reader experiences the highs and lows of a brave boy who will not rest until he rejoins his mother. After reading this moving and disturbing book, the reader realizes that the immigration issue is much more complex than the way it is usually portrayed. It also highlights the need for a serious examination of US economic policies here and abroad and the fact that all of us are involved in this issue.

This was an outstanding story when the L.A. Times published it – and the book is even better! Nazario’s writing seats you next to Enrique on his harrowing ride through Mexico and into the U.S. in search of his mother. It is a very moving and gripping and gritty story- It kept me reading way past my bedtime. Nazario’s eyewitness reporting made Enrique’s journey very ‘real’ for me. I very much enjoyed this book. An excellent read.

Great detail is spent describing areas to avoid and relationships with smugglers, police and “la migra”, the immigration police. The final part of the journey across the river to America is also traumatic and great detail is spent on different ways of crossing, many involving paying “coyotes” significant money to cross with no guarantees they will not be robbed. But this book does not end there as finally Enrique finds his mother in North Carolina. But is she really a “Mother” since she hasn’t seen her son in about 10 years? Obviously their relationship is unique and the book delves in to the difficulty. You will be educated on a significant human rights issue effecting America. On so many levels this is a book that needs to be read and whatever your current thoughts on immigration on our southern border, this will “humanize” the issue, give you greater insight and probably change or soften your position. Is there an answer? Probably not. We are blessed in America and these people want just a small piece of this dream and are willing to risk everything to change the future of their family. I do have one complaint about the book. The ending. I would have liked a better or more complete resolution. But this isn’t fiction, it’s real life. Read this book to learn. It is a fast read as it is so engrossing.

The U.S. is experiencing the largest wave of immigration in its history, transforming it in the process. Each year an estimated 700,000 enter illegally and another million legally. A growing number are single mothers, leaving their children with relatives or neighbors. Women in Honduras earn $40-120 per month in factories, cleaning houses, or providing child care. A hut with no bathroom or kitchen rents for almost $30/month. Many of their children are so malnourished they can’t stand for long, and often they are taken out of school at a very early age to care for siblings or sell tortillas. Every woman Nazario interviewed in the U.S. who had left children behind thought the separation would be brief. Reality is it takes years and years to reunite, and by the time it happens the children are usually very angry – feeling abandoned. Too often the boys seek out gangs to try and find the love they sought from their mothers; too often the girls get pregnant and form their own families. Most children who set out to rejoining their mothers don’t make it.

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This is an information-packed book fully covering this short but influential life. I believe this will stand as the definitive work on Malcolm X for a long time to come. For a book that documents as well as tells the story, Manning Marable does an excellent job of holding the reader’s interest throughout. Malcolm’s family, the Little’s, lost its house in a likely arson (for which his father was accused of starting for insurance money, when he had no insurance), lost its husband/father in a likely murder and then its mother to a mental institution. These were only a few of many setbacks before Malcolm’s teenage years. With this background it is not surprising that he turned to crime. Manning takes the reader through this stressful childhood, to prison where he studied and converted to Islam as interpreted by the Nation of Islam, through the religious and political activities that followed his release, his travels and break from NOI, and eventually his assassination. So many things were striking about this life.

The book provided more in-depth information about Malcolm travels and was a very important dimension which needed to be included in the original autobiography and the Malcolm X movie. So in that respect alone we all owe a debt of gratitude to Manning Marable for bringing forth this new information. It is not often that the world gives us a Man like Malcolm and history has to get it right by giving a as close to accurate assessment of his life so that we can properly honor him. I can go on and on about the new information I received by reading the book because it offers the reader a opportunity to again to dream and ponder about “What if Malcolm had of lived?” So I suggest that anyone who cares about the plight of our people and loved Malcolm to definitely read this book for themselves and don’t allow jealous people to destroy your opinion about Malcolm who died as a martyr for his people. Dr. John Henrik Clarke made this statement to those college professors and to those in the movement …if you want to be taken seriously, you need to write a book or no one will ever take you as a serious scholar.

Yet, while staring death in the face, he found the will to continue on. This is the greatest single lesson I have taken from the efforts of all the great civil rights leaders that they knew that there was a bullet, a knife, or a bomb waiting for them. They knew they would never see their children grow up and that each of them one by one would have to sacrifice themselves for the cause, but in the end, the dream would prevail. How remarkable plain and simple. All revolutionaries know that death stalks them and for Malcolm X it was no different. The author reveals that he was betrayed by his fellow comrades, and Louis Farrakhan who would succeed Elijah Muhammad, but not before Malcolm X would visit the Holy City of Mecca in 1965, convert to Sunni Muslim, and completely transform the Civil Rights movement in America. It is all here, and it is vividly portrayed. The reader feels the tensions and the dramatic twists and turns in every facet of this charismatic leader’s life. You will not fail to be moved by the sheer gravity of this entire period in American history so vastly misunderstood until now.

It is fascinating to learn of the deceit and lying of MX as well as of those around him. However, all in all, he emerges as a very human being and, in that, I can identify with him. Our heroes and leaders, after all, are not the gods that many of us would have them be. They are, like us, complex and often twisted figures with seemingly contradictory histories. And this is the way it should be. We are all humans with all that entails. This book has prodded me to learn more about the world which produced Malcolm X.

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I listened to the audio version of this book, which is truly amazing! The stories and insights are so interesting, and I was really sad when it was over.

(Apparently they’re not to be painted all black when put on a black/white/gray line). Dr. Venkatesh goes all the way to VIP dealers who are way up the food chain of drug dealing as he gains the trust of one street crack dealer. He shuns off the words that might hurt someone else’s not tough skin when he is called “Injun” by kids he is trying to take care of and “Ayrab” by a lot of the blacks and other minorities in America that he is studying to show how the drug dealing affects the community, both in a positive sense (for the minorities) and, more broadly, in a negative sense…for what is called “the majority” in America. As a scientist, he rises to the top of what his thesis is trying to explore and he finds out how much of the shift of wealth and property exists when dealers make it big without being caught. Of course, he explores the very few who are actually caught, because in the end it’s the ones who are involved in this trade who are all the losers. But Dr. Venkatesh does not paint them all losers, instead he brushes aside his values (hesitantly and not all out) to have compassion on the characters that make up his real life story.

Exellent book, absolutely facinating and a true look into what its like in the hood

What is even more disturbing, (than the incidents in the book are colorful and funny), is that everything that happens in the “dystopia of the Robert Taylor projects” is happening in the black part of every other inner city in America. Professor Venkatesh’s book demonstrates that American culture is becoming a checkerboard of “black dystopias” interlaced within “white utopias” and as my new best friend P.K Ryan would say: that appears to be the way America wants it. Period: beginning and end of the American racial story. However, disturbing, this is the way good sociology should be done: methodologically clean, pulling no punches, and close to the ground. I have already bought Professor Venkatesh’s two other books. Five stars.

As both a sociology major and correction officer i found this book to be both intriguing and a dead accurate portrayal of the young urban gang life. What I really found interesting was the inside glimpse into the lives of those in the Chicago projects and how as selfish as every character was in the book they still all needed each other to survive – which is why their system worked.

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Ms. Kingston, our class just finished reading White Tiger. I really enjoyed this story because it was filled with descriptive and imaginative creativity. It tells how the Chinese American’s are treated and what racial and prejudice they had to go through in the past and present. I really enjoyed this story not only because it was descriptive but the story comes to life in your imagination. Also, she used different illusions in the story; for example “the long wall.

Wow, the negativity of some of these reviews is overwhelming. As a Taiwanese-American teenage girl, I found a lot of value in this book. I can easily relate to Kingston’s struggle to come to terms with the duality of her background – she can never expect to belong in Chinese culture, nor can she be fully at ease in American culture. I think anybody whose parents grew up in a completely different environment can relate to these difficulties. A lot of the time when I communicate with my parents we are hear each other but do not understand each other – we come from different worlds.In response to all the readers who complained that the book is diluted and hard to follow, I do agree to some extent. The way the different story lines overlap, with no regard to chronological time, can be confusing. However, that doesn’t mean that you should give up on the book altogether; I think Kingston weaves these stories together to add depth to the story. She is trying to stress the common struggles of all women, which span all times and places.

I read through some of the reviews, particularly those posted by highschool students puzzled by why they had been ‘assigned’ to read this book, and was stirred to write something as well that would hopefully communicate what I love about this book. I read it for the first time in highschool too. At the time, I was a bookworm (and still am) – but nearly all the books I had read and liked were by white men. I’m only thirty, but when I was in highschool, even reading The Bluest Eye, another modern classic, was considered a controversial move for AP English. Amid important works by Renaissance writers like Shakespeare and Marvell, Victorian novelists, a little poetry and drama standby’s like Hedda Gabler and An Enemy of the People (ok, I went to a great highschool) — we were occasionally tossed a modern American writer, but always a white and male one. There was nothing wrong with those writers – I read Catcher in the Rye in a few afternoons and enjoyed it – but I felt something was missing.

Very challenging book to read. The author seamlessly weaves her own experiences in with the fantastic tales passed down by her mother. Sometimes you forget what’s real and what’s not. By the end, the reader really gets a sense of how alienated the narrator felt, growing up amid the old Chinese traditions in America.Kingston’s writing is different from anything I’ve read. She makes no bones about describing how badly girls were regarded or treated. Her stories are angry and powerful. One of my favorites was the retelling of the legend of Fa Mu Lan (THE woman warrior), but even the stories of the author’s mother as a medical student, the sad story of the aunt coming to America to reclaim her husband, were very exciting. The end of the book was a very emotional chapter, and I loved how the author tied the entire book together. I couldn’t put this book down.

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“The Other Wes Moore” is a beautifully written narrative study on the effects of class and that alone makes it unique. Two black youths, who live in the same neighborhood, but in different classes. The twist is more like a literary hook so-to-speak. Wes Moore’s mother was raised by college educated parents and she would have been a college graduate had it not been for forces beyond her control; his father was no slouch either although he dies early on. When Wes get too rambunctious she had the means to put him into military school. The Other Wes’ life was plagued with poverty and violence inside and outside his home, one day his father just takes off. As a result of this familial disengagement he ends up having children by multiple women and selling drugs. Here, there is much to be said about “active parenting”. The story is good, but I was quite disturbed and sadden that two hospitals allowed Race to place a major role in the deaths of two of the story’s characters. Included in the book is a short `call to action’ by Tavis Smiley which will also, like the book, miss its intend mark.

This, as you’ll find, is no spoiler. The Other Wes Moore should cause the reader to step back and question his or her own assumptions about socioeconomic conditions and the role of community and family in the development of young people. Both of these young men came from families who wanted them to succeed – to be more than what the world expected them to be. The Other Wes Moore is a wonderfully written story, communicated clearly, which portrays lives that are borne out of similar contexts whose subtleties are more than footnotes in the mental and emotional formations of both Wes’s. Was it what some would identify as “luck,” that got one Wes Moore into Johns Hopkins and the other in Jessup? What part do resources (financial and familial) play? Are there any clear advantages that one had over the other? This is a book that was hard for me to put down. I’m guessing that it’s a book that will be hard for me to forget. It will leave you asking what sort of legacy you yourself will leave as opposed to asking, “What if…?”

Excellent reading. Shows the impact of two people with the same name who took opposite paths in life. Young people need to read

It was a long way from his early years in Baltimore and New York City as a child of West Indian immigrants. He looked inquisitively at the youngest son who was eager to undergo circumcision as a rite of passage into manhood. The boy’s fearless confidence was in a procedure that would give him the respect that his elder brother and father had enjoyed after their time had come. Moore was here on a six-month visa. Having won a scholarship to study abroad, he chose an international business course offered by the University of Cape Town. He would learn by observing his host family a truth that had eluded him as a child living in the rough inner cities of the United States: poverty does not equal indignity. After he had some time to settle down, he decided he wanted to call his mother to let her know of his arrival. After they exchanged some pleasantries, she told him something that would again change the direction of his life. “[I] have something crazy to tell you. Did you know the cops are looking for another guy from your neighborhood with your name for killing a cop?” Who is Wes Moore? Two…

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I HAVE ENJOYED READING THIS BOOK. HE(OBAMA) IS A TRUE SPIRIT. IT JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT NO MATTER WHAT PROBLEMS YOU HAVE IN LIFE, YOU CAN GET THROUGH THEM.

With his thoughtful, powerful, and poignant writing style Barack is able to portray the true facts: “I realized that who I was, what I cared about, was no longer just a matter of intellect or obligation, no longer a construct of words. I saw that my life in America – the black life, the white life, the sense of abandonment I’d felt as a boy, the frustration and hope I witnessed in Chicago – all of it was connected with this small plot of earth an ocean away, connected by more than the accident of a name or the color of my skin. The pain I felt was my father’s pain. My questions were my brother’s questions. Their struggles, my birthright.” This book is a definite read. Barack Obama is able to capture his reader and keep them wanting more. Once I began reading it, I was not able to put the book down. You become captivated by all the hardships that he faces in his life and the way that he learns to fight through them and find himself in the end. This is a wonderful story because Barack is not afraid to hide anything. He is willing to tell people all about his life and let them know what made him the type of person he is today. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to everyone.

In the introduction to the first edition (written in 1995), he admits that he can’t speak for everyone in the world. This is the most ironic part of the book, since it was only a year after that that he first ran for the Illinois state legislature. Thereafter, he has increasingly been compelled to try to do just that. Although finding oneself has become a cliche, especially in the literary world, it was Barack Obama’s mission for the first thirty years of his life. Defined as a black man, he sought to make his race more than a social construct, but something central and ineffable, and at the same time not cut off his ties to the rest of humanity, particularly his white mother and grandparents. He doesn’t take his mother completely for granted — he spends thirty to fifty pages talking about her background and that of her parents, who moved from Kansas to Hawaii, seeing it as the last frontier, when she was about to start college. Another one hundred pages or so explore his life with them in Hawaii (with a short stint in Indonesia, where his mother married a man who had studied in America and gave birth to Obama’s half-sister Maya).

It added much to my growing fund of knowledge about Blacks in this country, their African forebears, racism and the long slow climb of the Black race in America from slaves to full citizens of this country; a climb which is far from over. I doubt that this country is ready to elect a Black President, but I am sure it will happen in my lifetime. If Obama can stay in politics and maintain the integrity he displays in his book, I would be glad to have him as President of the United States.

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