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鈥淪et at a boys鈥� boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable鈥�
鈥淢ilkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his鈥�
鈥淚n 1985 an ambitious young Mexican-American from California鈥檚 rural San Joaquin Valley became one of the few Latinos to enter America鈥檚鈥�
鈥淎 multi-generational saga of the Sioux Indians, mixing magic and reality. Set in the Dakotas, it begins in the 1860s with the tragic鈥�
鈥淚n the mid-1950s, the town of Lacey in the Mississippi hill country is a place where the lives of blacks and whites, though seemingly鈥�
鈥淎ntonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. She is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and鈥�
鈥淓leven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all鈥�
鈥淢onette recalls his tortured youth as a gay man, during which he tried to imitate straight men and pursued heartbreaking affections,鈥�
鈥淛ess Goldberg decides to come out as a butch in the bars and factories of the pre-feminist 鈥�60s and then to pass as a man in order to鈥�