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Dickens, a great observer of cultural attitudes, once wrote that society treated the downtrodden and poor like nothing more than hungry insects in the dust.
ReplyDeleteIn HAIKU, Andrew Vachss delves straight into the lives of a band of homeless men. He writes finely and sympathetically about each individual's lonely path to falling away from the world, and how each comes to consider the others as a family to whom he is bound and for whom he has become responsible.
The book has no superheroes; it isn't for children. But it is about the heroics of real men, and that is where Vachss delivers on his considerable genius. The ability to tell the truth is a great gift, and one every reader should take part in.
Thanks for that, Joscelyn! Without word-of-mouth like yours, Andrew would never have had a writing career--and that career is one of the greatest tools he's had to make an impact on how we treat predators.
ReplyDeleteHe has two books coming out in the next four weeks: HEART TRANSPLANT and THE WEIGHT. And I'm sure a public library that's as forward-thinking as yours clearly is will have both books in their collection.