Same Kind of Different as me

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Call Number: 976.453 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / General / Moore, Denver
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the authors (p. 237-244).
"The amazing true story"--Front cover.
"A modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together"--Front cover.
The co-author relates how he was held under plantation-style slavery until he fled in the 1960s and suffered homelessness for an additional eighteen years before the wife of the other co-author, an art dealer accustomed to privilege, intervened.

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Great for different world views, but heavily evangelical submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 8, 2014, 7:26pm As always, I read the book with not much knowledge about the content. This time it was a mixed blessing.

I picked the book up because of the cover line about "a modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together." I love the idea of people crossing unexpected boundaries, of relationships being forged, and am always interested in how our country's history of slavery is playing out and either being healed or still in need of healing.

I was intrigued that Denver met Ron while homeless at at free meal site. Given my own history of working in a slum in Philadelphia for two years, there was a great deal about the framing of "rich White do-gooders" vs. the reality of life on the streets that I understood. This book did a fantastic (FANTASTIC!) job of offering two different and very REAL world views that start out worlds apart.

An amazing book for just this reason.

What caught me off guard, and was clearly not put forward on the cover or back cover blurb, was that this is a heavily evangelical story. Mostly the authors are sharing their own experience of faith and conversion, but I felt a clear undercurrent of "we are telling you so that you can know and believe, too." And that's fine: they are welcome to do that. But I wasn't expecting it and was very much caught off guard when I thought I would be reading about slavery, income gaps, and connection despite wildly different lives.