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Much of what inspires Pink Houses and Family Taverns a collection of creativenonfiction by Becky Bradway is the authors upbringing in rural southernIllinois. Coming of age among a family of carpenters housewives and factoryworkers Bradway works to get an education and to build a different kind oflife for herself in spite of social pressures to keep her in her place. Herdreams of becoming a writer and a professor often run headon with thehometowns expectations that she keep her mouth shut like a proper girl andwith the universitys expectations that she toe a more formal conservativeline.The tension Bradway feels about Being From There permeates her memoir as shenegotiates the transitions between childhood and adulthood rural life andurban life ignorance and sophistication. She debates important life decisionsand presents us with a vivid array of characters family friends students who have made an impression on her.Bradway writes in a conversational style that is often humorous andoccasionally sardonic and she approaches her subjects with sincerity openmindedness and compassion. The essays are complemented by a selection ofblackandwhite photographs of the region and its inhabitants. «
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