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Book Response: A Death In The Family

James Agee’s A Death In The Family follows a young family in the early 20th century directly before and after the unexpected, sudden death of the patriarch, Jay Follet. Agee beautifully illustrates how each family member copes with Jay’s death, following their journey from anxiety to anger to confusion to acceptance. But despite the beauty […]

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Review: Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Recently, I read E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime Admittedly, this was for a class, and I’m not sure I would have picked it up on a whim. I’d never even heard of it, even though Modern Library lists it as #86 on its list of 100 Best Novels. To be fair, I don’t agree with everything on […]