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Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas, with the sad news that it is time to wrap up our 2021 Spring Read “Cultures in a Common Land.” To think of the people, places, and ideas we’ve experienced by reading together since January through April is impressive. I’ve been thumbing through the books and listening again to the Book Bytes on HPPR’s website, and I’ve recognized some personal growth, as I seem to experience, whenever I return home, after a good travel.
I mean, think about it…through the books in this spring series, we’ve been to Africa, California, Southeast Asia, and the upper North American Midwest. We’ve explored the winds and wounds of revolution and religious dogma, communication breakdowns and medical maltreatment, the displacement and near genocide of the first peoples of the Plains. Many of us have winced, wiggled uncomfortably in our skins, felt guilt for our parts, and empathy with the pain of those displa
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Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda from Dodge City, Kansas. Our Spring Read,
Cultures in a Common Land, invites us to think about conflicts between our ways of life and the customs, habits, and traditions of others. We began our spring read with Barbara Kingsolver’s
Poisonwood Bible, a novel that plunks a 1950’s family from the American South into the middle of the African Congo. Not versed in the customs or the geography of the land, and slow to learn, each member of the Price family adapts or dies. In which character, I wonder, do we see something of ourselves? Could we expect different outcomes, a different ending, if more of the characters had, like Anatole, been willing to act like cultural guides, to teach and explain, and like Leah, interested and willing to learn?
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