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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxi, 296 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 1/2 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, bringing the wonders of literature to a young African-American boy named Patrick and his rowdy classmates. For the first time, these boys began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle moved back to California;...
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