WOW! Press Suggested Reading

• CHILD SOLDIER: Fighting for My Life, by Keitetsi. China’s New UK Edition. The true life story of a young Ugandan girl who runs away from her oppressive and abusive home and is drafted into Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army and is soon in the thick of a guerrilla war. Maps, b/w illus, 274pp, UK. SOUVENIR PRESS
  
  
• My Long Journey Home, by Lily Golden. Golden, the daughter of Oliver Golden, an African American expatriate and agrarian activist of the early 1960’s, and Bertha Bialek, youngest daughter of Polish American émigrés of Jewish descent; offers a distinct and refreshing view of the connection between the contemporary and historical relationships of America to Russia. Golden allows the reader access into her lifelong revelation that family and community ties are boundless by time and geography. Third World Press.
  
  
• The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream, by Sheryll Cashin. Cashin, a former Clinton white house economic policy aide, writes of the ghosts of a hard-won integration, and the ravages left in the battle between black and white America. Cashin argues, in a rapidly-diversifying America, a radical transformation is needed…in order to solve the riddle of chronic inequality.
  
  
• My Life, by former President Bill Clinton. This 957-page memoir serves as a looking glass into the former president’s past, and his presidency. A man who admitted to loving the presidency probably as much as anyone to sit in the oval office before him offers his side of the story, in regards to the trials of his two-term presidency. Far beyond any other presidential memoir, Bill Clinton shares the American presidency with the American public. Knopf Publishers
  
  
• Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat. Award-winning writer Danticat’s prose is beautifully offered up for readers who want to learn more about her native land, Haiti. The Dew Breaker is a searing tale about a man and a woman in the war-ravaged country; and, how history dulls the line between love, hate and duty.
  
  
• Don’t Play in the Sun: One Woman’s Journey Through the Color Complex, by Marita Golden. Golden weaves a beautiful, but painful story of the politics of color within the black community. Boldly going where many choose not to go, Golden, in her indelibly taut writing style, wrestles with the centuries old complex issue of color and identity within the black community. Doubleday