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V.21 No.21 | 5/24/2012

Book Review

Show Me the Way to Go Home

Toni Morrison’s tale of siblings searching for solace has character but lacks resolution

By Sam Adams

Home

Like pretty much everything else she's written, Morrison's most recent novel is a work of historical fiction deeply ingrained in social injustices. Home’s story revolves around brother and sister Frank and Ycidra (aka "Cee") Money, who grew up in the destitute shantytown of Lotus, Ga. It was a place where, as Frank says in one of the book's many internal monologues, "There was no goal other than breathing, nothing to win and, save for somebody else's quiet death, nothing to survive or worth surviving for."

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Music

Jane Monheit tonight

Jessica Cassyle Carr [ Fri Mar 9 2012 2:26 PM ]

Photo courtesy of Jan Monheit

Jazz vocalist Jane Monheit is singing at The Outpost tonight. Read Mel Minter’s story about her here.

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V.21 No.10 | 3/8/2012

Photo courtesy of Jan Monheit

Jazzed

A Master’s Voice

Jane Monheit brings “home” to Albuquerque

By Mel Minter

If voices could be bought and sold the way that, say, violins are, Jane Monheit’s instrument would likely command a pretty price. Few can match her silky, sensual sonority, which bathes the ears in pure acoustic pleasure. Makes you want to fill up an entire bathtub with that sound and take a full-body soak.

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