"If we are indeed as oversexed, consumer-obsessed, gadget-distracted and dangerously superficial as Gary Shteyngart paints us in his exuberant and devastating new novel, Super Sad True Love Story—and let’s face it, we are—will such an acidly funny, prescient book be wasted on us? Wait, what was the question again?" —The San Francisco Chronicle
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"A hybrid of pulp and Poe, O’Brien’s book wraps a true-crime story around a tale of family ghosts. His saga of this prominent 1800s family of Saratogians has enough moments of melodramatic excess—religious fanaticism! inherited insanity! parricide!—to rival the most extravagant Gothic novels of the day." —The Chicago Tribune
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What is the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Education? Well known for establishing racial equality as a central commitment of American schools, the case also inspired social movements pursuing equality in education for students across all lines of difference. Yet, more than a half-century following Brown, schools, parents and policy makers still debate whether the ruling requires all-inclusive classrooms, and today American schools appear to be more segregated than ever. more...