“Rather than speaking academically or in the abstract, however, the book’s impressive roster of contributing authors push their pens toward the personal … Delivered with varying shades of color and candor, these pieces form an anthology within an anthology — a gripping triptych of American displacement and transience … As impactful as its essays are, the book’s fiction and poetry lend it even more flesh and soul … [Freeman’s] introduction to the book is one of its most impassioned entries. In it, he observes how the act of walking through an American city with eyes wide open can radically expand our capacity for empathy, or as Freeman calls it, our ‘bandwidth of care’ — not to mention our resolve to work toward something better … Poignant and profound, Tales of Two Americas is exactly such a framework — one that unites a multiplicity of voices into a powerful rallying cry.”
–Jason Heller, NPR, September 6, 2017
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