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Now a Spike Lee film, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave
James McBride’s powerful memoir, The Color of Water, was a groundbreaking literary phenomenon that…
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1 author picked Miracle at St. Anna as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This summer I visited Fort Davis, Texas and learned about the “buffalo” soldiers who were stationed there in the 1860s.
This was the nickname for African-American soldiers, who were separate regiments in the U.S. Army. McBride’s novel deals with a “buffalo” regiment but is set in World War II in Italy. I did not know anything about the experiences of African-American soldiers in World War II.
What I really loved about this book was the unlikely situations that a small group of African-American soldiers find themselves in a tiny village in Italy, under siege from the Germans. Despite the differences…
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