Let This Book Give You Heart

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Lastly, if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book erase that doubt.  Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.

Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

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A Lovely Thing Done Together

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Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created.

Toni Morrison, “The Nobel Lecture in Literature”

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