Bombingham by anthony grooms5/22/2023 ![]() His novel achieves what only the best literature can give us: it refuses too-easy consolations or too-easy condemnations. " The Vain Conversation vividly evokes the horrors of American racism, but Anthony Grooms never denies the humanity of his characters, whether black or white, young or old. I suspect that those are things Grooms did not have to learn because they were already in his blood before he wrote his first words."-Edward P. We ask many things of the writers we have taken to our hearts-honesty, sincerity, sensitivity, old verities to borrow Faulkner's phrase. "Grooms has always had a precise and sure and precious way with words, and he does not disappoint those who have come to love his work, his way of seeing and hearing the world. ![]() "That Grooms' incisive, gripping, and empathetic novel dares to probe beneath the humiliations, customs, and fears that sustain injustice implies that our seemingly eternal conversation on race, to which the title refers, may not be as vain as it often seems."- Kirkus Reviews ![]() "With complexity, satire, and sometimes levity, he explores what it means to redeem, as well as to be redeemed, on the issues of America's race violence and speaks to the broader issues of oppression and violence everywhere."- Midwest Book Review ![]() "In a preview of the book, New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash noted, The Vain Conversation vividly evokes the horrors of American racism, but never denies the humanity of his characters, whether black or white, young or old."- Kennesaw State University News ![]()
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