Legacies – Reads A Lot

Lives and Legacies in “Three Girls from Bronzeville” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsSeptember 7, 2021 by Michael Welch

[ad_1] The Chicago literary tradition was built by the foot. Where Los Angeles had the glamour and New York had the grandeur, some of the most influential writers made Chicago come alive on the page through the most intimate depictions of the most intimate of landmarks, from a street in Bronzeville to a house on … Read more

Contending With Legacies in “Too Much Lip” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsNovember 6, 2020 by Dana Dunham

[ad_1] Melissa Lucashenko’s novel Too Much Lip tells the story of stolen land and stolen children. Though these crimes are assigned to the past, their violent legacies – poverty, addiction, abuse, discrimination – still plague the Bundjalung Nation, an Aboriginal community whose ancestral homelands lie along the northern coast of New South Wales, Australia. But … Read more