It was the middle of my workday and I was running errands at lunchtime. I stopped by the drugstore to pick up a prescription, hoping to cross off one more “to do” item from my list. There were a lot of people ahead of me at the pharmacy. As I stood in line, I realized […]
Emily Young
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Going back to Oxford
Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story By Timothy B. Tyson Crown, 368 pp., $24.00 Forty-nine years after the brutal murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, federal and county prosecutors are reopening the case. The painful truth of that event still needs to be uncovered; the wounds of a racist history are not yet […]
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The Indy Bookshelf
Dispatches from a Not-so-Perfect Life: Or How I Learned to Love the House, the Man, the Child By Faulkner Fox Harmony Books, 272 pp., $23.00 hardcover If you are one of those “mothers who think”–which I take to mean those of us who think about our complicated roles as mothers, those of us who use […]