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Recommended. A study of a poor kid's stereotypical experience of growing up in the Newark projects with a single mom and a dad in jail for murder. He eventually graduates from Yale and has tons of opportunities, but that doesn't mean he's out of the shadow of the ghetto.

"Selling the Invisible" is much better. This book could use an update that accounts for the more dynamic relationship between businesses and their customers.

How much do you trust the narrator? Is this real? Real for whom? It's short and entertaining. I'm a Jennifer Egan fan. Check out "A Visit From the Goon Squad"; the chapter written in ppt will blow your mind.

Super weird. Not sure it was worth my time.

I'm a sucker for all things Churchill. This book is no exception. Well set up to support a series of spy novels featuring a female MI5, female codebreaker (aka Mr. Churchill's over-educated typist) during the height of WWII. Disappointed I learned no new Churchill trivia here. In case you're wondering his wife Clementine's nickname for him was Pig.

Starts strong. Solid historical fiction that weaves narratives across centuries and among characters. The mystery is well conceived and complex, but not suspenseful. Ending is a little too anticlimactic.

What's better than historical fiction about the plague? Not much.

Creepy.

Amusing and well paced. Best part is the awkwardness of Tom Wolfe's characterization of Black Atlanta.

My favorite part is the disinformation strategy. Give anyone who might want to find you lots of false leads of where you might be.

About 100 pages too long.

The coyote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck, and friendless. ... He is so spiritless and cowardly that even while his exposed teeth are pretending a threat, the rest of his face is apologizing for it.