To understand America better, a writer is reading a book from a different state every week. What would you suggest she read and why?
Last summer while watching the discord of the Democratic presidential debates, Los Angeles writer Heather Johns Fogarty realized she had become a stranger in her own country. “It occurred to me how little I knew of a person’s lived experience in Ohio or Montana, or even Arizona some 200 miles away.”Instead of throwing up her hands or arguing with strangers on social media, she decided to start reading more deeply.
one book from each state, as well as from Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., prioritizing contemporary fiction and memoir, with the hope of exploring shared experiences, such as family, identity and a sense of home.” So far, she has read her way through Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado and Connecticut and shares
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