Annie Ernaux’s “Young Man” and Drew Gilpin Faust’s “Necessary Trouble” are among the moving personal stories.
Faust’s passion for social justice began in childhood, when, at age 9, she wrote a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower about the shame of segregation. At boarding school, she attended a talk by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “We were so still and quiet as we listened to him that we hardly breathed.
Faust concludes with the important acknowledgment that although she attended these events, where people were beaten and sometimes killed, she emerged unscathed. “I was not murdered … I had managed not to become a victim, and I was still struggling not to be an executioner.” “‘They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us,’ by Prachi GuptaIn this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task.
“I had planned to write my story as a novel,” she writes. “But after everything that has happened to us, fictionalizing our lives felt like an act of cowardice.” “ ” is anything but cowardly. Gupta’s resilience and her hope to be fully seen are an inspiration in both personal and political terms.
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