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Viktor Chemmel’s Cruelty and Max’s Secret Book

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When it came to stealing, Liesel and Rudy first stuck with the idea that there was safety in numbers. Andy ‎Schmeikl invited them to the river for a meeting. Among other things, a game plan for fruit stealing would be ‎on the agenda. ‎“So are you the leader now?” Rudy had asked, but Andy shook […]

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How Incarceration Destroys Marriage: Lessons from Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage

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The Weight of Incarceration: Celestial’s Story of Art, Trauma, and Survival‎‎My family eventually packed up and migrated to **Atlanta**, finding refuge with my grandfather’s brother until my granddaddy secured a job. The catalyst for our move was a singular, haunting moment in a store: the realization that my mama was destined to be a **baby

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“An American Pathology”: Reading Americanah as Quest Romance

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‎ ‎As Adichie remarked in an interview about the novel: “I am more or less expected, or maybe permitted, to write about African pathology, but I don’t think I am expected to write about American pathology” (Sehgal 2013: para. 21). At this point, it may be useful to distinguish what the novel’s turn toward realism

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