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Civics & Citizenship

Paper Girl by Beth Macy

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In Paper Girl, Beth Macy peels back the layers of her hometown to explore the forces shaping communities across the country–issues like the mental health crisis, access to education, and the rise of misinformation and conspiracy thinking. With her signature compassion, she asks how we got here and how we can begin to reconnect with the people and places that that feel so far away? This feels like her most personal book yet, full of care for both subject and reader.

Paper Girl by Beth Macy, (List Price: $3200, Penguin Press, 9780593656730, October 2025)

Reviewed by Beth Seufer Buss, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl

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Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl
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Margaret’s weekly New York Times columns about culture in The South call out our many failures while describing in beautiful detail what makes our part of America so beautiful. Just when I think there’s no possible way to capture the tension between the terrible and the special, Margaret’s words are there to express what I am feeling.

Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl, (List Price: $26.00, Milkweed Editions, 9781571311849, September 2021)

Reviewed by Sissy Gardner, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee


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