Mayra Calvani's Blog Posts Tagged 'poverty' (3)

Book Review: Getting Out of Dodge City, Heading for L.A. on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe

Getting Out of Dodge City, Heading for L.A. on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe is a short novel that reads like a memoir and that will appeal to those interested in black American history and the dynamics of poor black American families from the early 1800s to the 1960s.…

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Added by Mayra Calvani on April 25, 2012 at 5:22am — No Comments

Book Review: If I Bring You Roses, by Marisel Vera

Award-winning, first-time novelist Marisel Vera pens an honest, heart-felt, often sad tale of an idealistic, naïve Puerto Rican girl named Felicidad who goes to America to be with the man she loves.

The story, told from an author omniscient point of view, begins in the early 1940’s in the Puerto Rican countryside and ends about ten years later in…

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Added by Mayra Calvani on June 22, 2011 at 9:24am — No Comments

Book review: The Immortality Virus, by Christine Amsden

 

Christine Amsden’s second novel, The Immortality Virus, raises an intriguing question: Is it really all that wonderful to find the secret of immortality and live forever?

It’s the 21st century and the world is being ruled by The Establishment, a totalitarian government made of an elite few. People don’t age anymore. As a result, overpopulation has…

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Added by Mayra Calvani on May 29, 2011 at 9:18am — No Comments

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