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A home in the heart of a city
By Hirsch, Kathleen
- ISBN
- 978-0-37428-079-6
- Publisher
- New York : North Point Press, c1998.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1998
The bleak despair that characterizes many discussions of urban life today is largely absent from Hirsch's lovingly rendered portrait of her Boston neighborhood, Jamaica Plain ("JP"). Hirsch, a "journalist of urban affairs," touched on similar themes in her previous books, Songs from the Alley (LJ 4/15/89) and Mothers (North Point, 1996). Some of the same criticism (though not by LJ, which gave it ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
