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![]() Strength in What Remains, however, brought me to some quite unfamiliar environs. ![]() ![]() Small Town, a look at Northampton, Massachusetts, and the people who lived there in the 1990s, including a police officer, the mayor, and a struggling single mother, is perfectly fine as a portrait of a community–but also did not do anything to enlighten me, as I was already quite familiar with the culture Kidder depicted. Among Schoolchildren is the story of a year in a fifth grade classroom in a public school in the United States, and having gone to public schools in the US, and having my children attend public schools in the US, there was nothing particularly new for me there (yes, good teachers work hard, teaching is a difficult job, children are complicated, and so on), although it may be an interesting read for someone unfamiliar with the environment, or perhaps for a cultural historian in the distant future. ![]() Before I picked up Strength in What Remains, I read two other books by Tracy Kidder, both of which I thought were well written, but not extremely compelling or original. ![]()
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