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I bought the book this morning at Village Books in Bellingham WA — it is so new they had to find it for me on a “to be shelved” cart (it will be shelved in Cultural Criticism). We sat down during cocktail hour and I opened it — and I’m on Chapter 5. I knew from the newsletter that you can write but I didn’t know just how well you can tell a story. It is so compelling, just sucked me in. Full disclosure: I am a White from MN, raised by Goldwater Republicans in a Presbyterian church, but started figuring out who I was at a small Lutheran college in rural MN where the faculty definitely leaned left. Maybe we’ll watch a movie tonight, probably I’ll read more. Well done, Garrett, so well done.

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Congratulations! I look forward to discussing this in a book club I hope to put together once I’m back in an anglophone environment this fall. But I also hope for a translation into German by a translator who doesn’t read white supremacy & destruction of community as a distinctly American problem (I’ve been told by some locals they distract themselves from their problems by deflecting to how racist and violent it is in the US, but then I read https://www.dw.com/en/the-silent-pandemic-loneliness-a-threat-to-democracy/a-68513591 & https://www.dw.com/en/germany-battles-growing-crack-and-fentanyl-crisis/a-68512680; it’s all too sad and similar).

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