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4.0
I really enjoyed Offut's narrative voice for the most part. He writes in a pretty simple, honest style that's never simplistic. In some ways, I would have liked a little more reflection on what made it hard for him to achieve his purpose in coming home and teaching at MSU; but in another way, this is just a book about the experience of trying and failing, not really a treatise on the sociology of an economically depressed area and what it would take to make a real change there. The weaving-in of his inlaws' Holocaust experience gives the book more weight than it otherwise would have and works pretty well as both a source of comparison and stark contrast to his own story. A good, accessible read with plenty to think about when you're done.
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