Barbara Kania itibaren Manitowish Waters, WI , USA

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2018-07-26 03:40

Şebnem Ferah - Perdeler TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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4 1/2 stars. Maggots in my Sweet Potatoes is an impressive book, impressive in that you will come away with an expanded and perhaps new impression of what life is like in a women's jail. Ms. Lankford is a photojournalist and this large format (~13” x ~10”) book is filled with stark black and white photos. It is not, however, just another coffee table book. The author follows the stories of real people and this book should be read, not just thumbed through. Jails are very different than prisons. In jails, there is such a mixture of serious criminals and the truly innocent who can't post bail while awaiting trial. There are people there who should be in prison but are in jail because of the prisons' overcrowding. There are the mentally ill who need treatment, and there are those who pretend to be mentally ill so they can scam the system. It is a very mixed society, and difficult to deal with. The author has a great deal of empathy for the people she interviews, but she doesn't get overly fluffy about it, does not excuse the wrong things that have been done by them. She does, however, explain how their early lives filled with poverty and crime made it more likely that these women would end up in jail and prison than most of us would. Of course, that isn't always the case. There was the well-educated interior decorator who charged thousands on a credit card that wasn't hers (oops, don't you hate it when that happens?). The book is also about how we, as a society, have not found the solution, how people who can be rehabilitated are often instead made worse by incarceration. Huge amounts of money and numbers of lives are wasted because we do not know how to handle these criminals. This book is part of a trilogy that includes Downtown U.S.A., and the not-yet published Born, Not Raised, to be published in May 2011, and I look forward to reading both of those. This book is beautiful but I have one small quibble: although the layout is lovely to view, some of the text is too small to read easily, especially for such a large and heavy book. And I want to be able to read it all. Thank you to the publisher (Humane Exposures) and the author for giving me a copy of the book.

2018-07-26 07:40

An İmaginative Woman - Thomas Hardy TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

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I knew that crossing the border between Mexico and the U.S. was difficult, but I had no idea about the dangers that Central American migrants face before they even get to the border. Sonia Nazario tells the story of Enrique, a boy whose mother left him and his sister when he was five to find work in the United States because she could not make enough money to take care of her kids in Honduras. After feeling that no one cares about him, Enrique decides to travel on freight trains to the U.S. to find his mother by himself when he is seventeen. This book is heartbreaking. Enrique and other migrants face police who rob them, gangsters who beat them, and trains that amputate their legs. Women are frequently raped. And Enrique's mother faces poverty in the U.S., false promises about obtaining immigration papers, and a boyfriend who leaves her after she gives birth to another kid. (I almost stopped reading because the story was so depressing, but I kept going after an uplifting chapter where people threw food to migrants riding through on the trains and took care of travelers in their churches.) Even after Enrique succeeds in crossing the border, on his eighth attempt, he realizes that his life with his mother will not be the fantasy he imagined because he is angry at being left and he and his mother have grown apart. This book offers an honest look at why people see the U.S. as the answer to crushing poverty and the experiences of individual immigrants, which is often missing in discussions about immigration policy. I'm glad I read it. Thanks to the JCYC diversity book club for encouraging me to pick it up.

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