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Kingston's aunt drowned herself in the family well, and no one may say her name. Out of that silence and the legend of a woman warrior, Kingston remade what American memoir could do.
Sebald follows four émigré lives quietly undone by the twentieth century, each coming apart decades after the danger had passed. Unlabeled photographs surface throughout the prose and you read them as evidence.
Riis went into New York's tenements at night with a camera and flash powder, and brought back the room where twelve people slept. Roosevelt sought him out, and the worst blocks came down.