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    WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

    Alabama-based singer-songwriter Eric Erdman has written a very moving response to THE VAIN CONVERSATION for the TRIO project, which brings together visual artists, musicians and writers in conversation.  Click on the image of Erdman to hear his song.  Click on the TRIO logo to learn more about the program and to see other artists.
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    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. His novel achieves what only the best literature can give us: it refuses too-easy consolations or too-easy condemnations. When we finish the last page, the book is not finished with us. It will haunt us.

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    --Ron Rash, New York Times Best Selling Author, Serena, The World Made Straight, One Foot in Eden

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    Story River Books/

    University of South Carolina Press, 2018

    ISBN 1611178827,

    ISBN 13 9781611178821

     

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