Essential Summer Reading: A Classic Tale of Hope and the American Dream
IN AN AGE OF anxiety, it’s tempting to dream of a kinder, more glamorous and distant world. But it might be even more helpful to remember places closer to home, impoverished and pedestrian—to travel through time rather than space to experience a realm both different from and similar to our contemporary one. Betty Smith’s semi-autobiographical…
https://annplus.com/essential-summer-reading-a-classic-tale-of-hope-and-the-american-dream/
IN AN AGE OF anxiety, it’s tempting to dream of a kinder, more glamorous and distant world. But it might be even more helpful to remember places closer to home, impoverished and pedestrian—to travel through time rather than space to experience a realm both different from and similar to our contemporary one. Betty Smith’s semi-autobiographical…
https://annplus.com/essential-summer-reading-a-classic-tale-of-hope-and-the-american-dream/