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The most effective pieces in each collection overflow with detailed description. About her time in New York City, Biss recalls: ''I listened to Rosie, the police officer, singing Aretha Franklin in the bathroom of the school where I worked. I knew, intimately, the empty lots where grandmas from Alabama grew okra and collard greens.'' Despite objection to some of her more slovenly neighbors, Johnson enjoys her mismatched Cajun neighborhood: ''There were graceful palm trees in some yards, à la tourist-court Florida, and cars on cinderblocks in others.'' When these authors employ their precise observations in the service of increasing cultural or personal knowledge, the essays shine with thoughtful beauty, and the effort of self-exploration proves fruitful. These two collections look carefully at the lives of poor whites and people of color, casting a nuanced and often loving eye at the problems, rewards, and contradictions of identities they experience from the outside. Johnson provides satisfyingly light entertainment: essays remain funny, vivid, and welcoming, despite occasional alienation. Her love for the area and its people, though tinged at times with cultural discomfort, shine

Author

Carrie Shipers,

Publisher

Project MUSE (ISSN 0032-6682)

Published

2010