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A review by yi_shun_lai
Teacher: Two Years in the Mississippi Delta by Michael Copperman
5.0
This book. I read it in two sittings, interrupted only by a few hours' sleep. I really couldn't wait to get back to it. It reads like a thriller, and I mean that in the best of ways: I couldn't wait to find out what would happen to Michael, what he might learn, what conclusions he might draw.
This is such a valuable book, on multiple levels: The person who wants to know about different demographics gets to know a classroom in poverty-stricken Mississippi. The minority reader gets to hear about what it's like to be the Only One. The writer gets to luxuriate in Copperman's layered descriptions.
And the person who values humanity will be so, so glad they picked up this work, so they can pass it on, and on, and on. Read this. You won't be sorry.
This is such a valuable book, on multiple levels: The person who wants to know about different demographics gets to know a classroom in poverty-stricken Mississippi. The minority reader gets to hear about what it's like to be the Only One. The writer gets to luxuriate in Copperman's layered descriptions.
And the person who values humanity will be so, so glad they picked up this work, so they can pass it on, and on, and on. Read this. You won't be sorry.