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May 30, 2023 · Dorothy and Irene become “the sisters,” and Dorothy declares to Irene that they are each other’s family. At one point you write, “Irene and Dorothy were like an old married couple, their outbursts and rhetorical questions a form of connection. A nest of self where they felt safe.”
Analysis. The narrator returns to Irene at present, in her home in New York, holding the second letter she has received from Clare, several years after their meeting in Chicago. In this letter, Clare expresses her desire to see Irene again. Irene lays the letter aside and contemplates her intense feelings of fear and anger about the incident ...
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May 30, 2023 · By Jane Ciabattari. May 30, 2023. Luis Alberto Urrea’s dramatic, heart-breaking new novel, Good Night, Irene, brings to light the heroic World War II service of a group of American women rarely written about. The novel was inspired by his mother, an East Coast WASP who served as a volunteer during World War II offering donuts and coffee to ...
A horse-drawn carriage pulls up to the home. Holmes and Watson deduce from the quality of the carriage that the client must be quite wealthy. Watson attempts to leave so Holmes can be alone with the man, but Holmes insists he stay. A tall, muscular man enters the apartment dressed in flashy clothes and a mask.
Irene Redfield. Irene, the central character of the book, believes in the power of systems and rules yet frequently finds herself in situations where the rules do not provide the orderly life she longs for. Although Irene is, like Clare, light-skinned enough to pass as white, she takes pride in living as a Black woman and feels a loyalty to her ...
May 22, 2023 · The author's mother was a Red Cross volunteer assigned to Patton's 3rd Army — she was with the troops who helped liberate Buchenwald. Urrea's new woman-centered wartime novel is Good Night, Irene.
Lead Belly was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2008. Though many releases credit him as "Leadbelly", he wrote his name as "Lead Belly". This is the spelling on his tombstone [5] [6] and is used by the Lead Belly Foundation. [7]
