Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor - a reformed drug dealer and convict - who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Feeling unworthy, Albom insists on understanding the man better, which throws him back into a world of faith he'd left years ago. Albom's first nonfiction book since Tuesdays with Morrie, Have a Little Faith begins with an unusual request: an eighty-two-year-old rabbi from Albom's old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy. What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? In Have a Little Faith, Mitch Albom offers a beautifully written story of a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds - two men, two faiths, two communities - that will inspire readers everywhere.
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I am not saying Frankie Manning was an Uncle Tom, I wouldn’t know– I started after his passing remember –but how we talk about him follows both of these tropes. It’s a derogatory name, a character, and a trope with many different ways of using it. More about the Magical Negro troupe a bit later, but Uncle Tom is a lot of things. I can feel the discomfort and or anger from most readers, from here, but hear me out. There are two tropes for Black people that I was warily starting to notice and a general vibe I didn’t notice until much later. Having started a few years after his death, I could only learn of him through the stories, and the stories made me a bit uncomfortable. To my eyes, he wasn’t on a whole other level than the other dancers in the video, and honestly, he wasn’t even my favourite. I was confused as to why this guy was the one being so highly upheld. It was as if your closeness to Frankie was a status symbol. People talked about him as though he was a magical figure. It was then that I started hearing the talk about Frankie. When I watched the Hellzapoppin’video as a young dancer I recall being mostly focused on trying to figure out why their dancing looked so different than what I saw around me and… a discomfort with the costumes. Frankie signing copies of his autobiography. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times) CHESTER HIGGINS JR./STF Show More Show Less Sacks, who explored some of the brain's strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," achieving a level of renown rare among scientists, died on Aug. Oliver Sacks at his home in New York on Feb. (Lewis Whyld/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE Lewis Whyld/SUB Show More Show Less 4 of4 FILE - Dr. Sacks died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said. Oliver Sacks, whose books like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" probed distant ranges of human experience by compassionately portraying people with severe and sometimes bizarre neurological conditions, has died. 26, 2008 file photo of Dr Oliver Sacks, receiving his Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE ), by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, London. Chris McGrath/Staff Show More Show Less 3 of4 FILE - This is a Nov. Show More Show Less 2 of4 "Gratitude" is neurologist and author Oliver Sacks' final novel. 1 of4 "Gratitude" is neurologist and author Oliver Sacks' final novel. |