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Gail’s 2025 Year in Books
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Gail Lukasik
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
September 09
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January 2011
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White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing
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2017
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10 editions
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The Darkness Surrounds Us
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2023
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10 editions
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The Lost Artist
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2012
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6 editions
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Destroying Angels
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2006
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Death's Door
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2009
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9 editions
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What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed
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Peak Season for Murder
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2013
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Homeless, In My Own Words: True Stories of Homeless Mothers
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2012
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6 editions
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Landscape Toward a Proper Silence.
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction, Readers' Favorite Debut Novel, Readers' Favorite Audiobook |
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The Correspondent
by Virginia Evans (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Readers' Favorite Fiction, Readers' Favorite Debut Novel, Readers' Favorite Audiobook |
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| I'm of two minds about this book. On one hand I admire Packer for taking on a difficult and heartrending subject--a cancer patient's last months from the point of view of her caregiver husband. But on the other hand, some of the decisions made by the ...more | |
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“Though the one-drop rule is no longer law, even today mixed race is defined by the minority race. An example is former president Barack Obama. Though his father was black and his mother was white, he is referred to as the first black president, as if his father’s blackness erased his mother’s whiteness.”
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
“Allyson Hobbs posits that the loss of kinship from passing was just as acutely felt by dysfunctional families as it was stable ones. The core issue of passing is not becoming what you pass for, but losing what you pass away from. For Hobbs passing is about loss.”
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
“shiver and sweat from the malaria.” She put her hand to her throat. “One night he tried to strangle me. He thought I was the enemy.”
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| Historical Fictio...: HF Challenge #10: Report Points Here | 198 | 191 | Aug 03, 2012 04:33AM | |
| Cozy Mysteries : How many Cozy series are you reading | 44 | 172 | Aug 26, 2014 08:40AM | |
| The Next Best Boo...: Author ABC Lists by Genre | 67 | 282 | Nov 24, 2014 08:33AM | |
Cozy Mysteries :
Title and Author Game, Round 2
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15570 | 1207 | Mar 21, 2016 09:15AM | |
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Game Night:
Sally
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Hooked on Books :
Pilgrims: Check-in
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The Procrastinato...:
Team 2: The Jet-Setting Yetis
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225 | 65 | Jan 04, 2022 03:58AM | |
| Around the Year i...: Best Books of November 2024 | 24 | 185 | Jan 02, 2025 12:53PM |
“In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.”
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“Though the one-drop rule is no longer law, even today mixed race is defined by the minority race. An example is former president Barack Obama. Though his father was black and his mother was white, he is referred to as the first black president, as if his father’s blackness erased his mother’s whiteness.”
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
― White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group
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“It was a dark and stormy night. Lightning flashed and thunder rolled across the sky. Rain spattered a mysterious, hooded stranger who peered over the ...more
¡ POETRY !
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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
Q&A with Gail Lukasik
— 5 members
— last activity Jul 09, 2012 10:38AM
Dear Readers, Welcome! It’s my pleasure to chat with you for the next three weeks from July 9 - July 30, 2012 at Goodreads. I’ll be happy to answer yo ...more
