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Varying styles of narrative and techniques of persuasion comprise We are the Weather. In addition to stories and stats, Foer's literary expressions range from an anti-suicide note to a re-imagined dialogue between Jan Karski and the Justice skeptical of the emergent Holocaust. I've never read a book quite like it. Needless to say, my shopping cart had even less eco-unfriendly foods during my recent trip to the supermarket.
A book review of We are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Jonathan Safran Foer)
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"We are the Weather" by Jonathan Safran Foer (Courtesy of Macmillan Publishers)
Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her reviews on books from the Dauphin County Library System, including one on We are the Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer, at landturn.com/reviews.
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Race for Profit deconstructs the policies and industry practices under which Black homebuyers became a new market of mortgagees. Ultimately, Taylor seems to sober the cautioning of her conclusion. Sobering it may be, but I think Race for Profit narrows the information asymmetry between the Black prospective homebuyer, the lender, and the appraiser.
A book review for Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor)
Recommender/Reference: Boston Review 
"Race for Profit" by Keeanga-Yamahtta-Taylor (Image reproduced with permission from UNC Press)
Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find her reviews on books from the Dauphin County Library System, including one on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's Race for Profit, at landturn.com/reviews.
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