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Home Town
Home Town | Tracy Kidder
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In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.
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scripturient
Home Town | Tracy Kidder
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It‘s here!!! 😍😍 Thank you, @KimM !! Now I only have to survive the wait. 😁 Your package should get there soon as well. It‘s currently in customs but I guess you should have it by the beginning of next week. 😊 #hometownswap

KimM Yay! It made it! 6y
scripturient @KimM Very much looking forward to opening it. Let me know when yours gets there. 😘 6y
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MrsGagnonreads2024
Home Town | Tracy Kidder

@Kelican17 can I please have your email 😁 so I can send part of your home town swap that way 😁

Kelican17 Krpattison17@gmail.com 😊 6y
MrsGagnonreads2024 Thank you 6y
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scripturient
Home Town | Tracy Kidder
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My #hometownswap package is finally ready to make its way across the pond to a Litten in a US southern state. Could it be you?😉 I‘ll take this to the post office today and it should travel for about two weeks so it will be in time for our opening date on 7th August. I unfortunately couldn‘t wrap the presents inside as the kid ended up using all the gift wrap last night. 🙄 Sorry about that! I still hope my match likes what I picked for them. 😊

scripturient Can‘t tag the swap hosts @MicrobeMom and @Readinginthedark somehow. 🤔 6y
scripturient Oh, looks like it worked now. Weird. 😅 6y
julesG That's a large box of delights heading out. Tagging works in comments, not in posts. 6y
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Aimeesue I got all kinds of excited to see new Folios for a minute there. 😋 6y
scripturient @Aimeesue 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sorry! 6y
readinginthedark Awesome! 6y
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smilingshelves
Home Town | Tracy Kidder
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Yesterday's #bookhaul from our library book sale. Such a dangerous place! 😀

BucklingBookshelves Nice stack! Doesn‘t look TOO dangerous 📚😊 We had another tag sale with used books in town today 🙊 Spring is so dangerous for my TBR lol (edited) 6y
smilingshelves @Bucklingbkshelf It would have been a lot more dangerous if the children's section wasn't so picked over already! 😀 6y
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BookBabe
Home Town | Tracy Kidder
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#BookNBrunch! @MrBook cooked up a lovely brunch for us on this frigid and snowy afternoon: cheesy scrambled eggs with genoa salami, corned beef hash, sausage links, tater tots, toasted peasant bread, lemon ginger tea, and aloe juice. MMMmmm 😋! This has been a presentation of: #MrBookBookBabeKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats! 🍳

Mdargusch Yum. I love corned beef hash! 6y
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Amandamcs
Home Town | Tracy Kidder
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A look at everyday life in a city I adore, Northampton MA