Sunday Books: coverage for July 10, 2011
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1980s Atlanta is at the root of Tayari Jones’ astonishing tale of two daughters, equally divided and equally yearning, who share one bigamist father.
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The men behind the concept and building of America’s superhighways.
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The remarkable (and remarkably unappreciated) female athlete gets her due in Don Van Natta Jr.’s biography.
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In ‘Once Upon a River’ by Bonnie Jo Campbell, a teenage girl comes of age by learning how to navigate the world by way of a river, but unlike the story of Huckleberry Finn, the girl’s experience has more perils.
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The Salem witch trials permeate poet Rebecca Wolff’s gothic coming-of-age novel.
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Nova Ren Suma enters the realm of magical realism in her creepy and atmospheric look at codependent sibling love.
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“Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West” by Dorothy Wickenden, Scribner: 320 pp., $26 Dorothy Wickenden’s grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff, was 29 when she set out for a remote Colorado outpost in 1916 to teach the children of homesteaders with her best friend, Rosamund Underwood.
