Books

Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors-some eminent, some less well known-who grew up tough and talented in working-class America.

• ...invaluable insights...

  Nazli Kibria, author of Family Tightrope: The Changing Lives of Vietnamese Americans

In this fascinating book, Atwood takes readers on a journey through Iraq, Peru, Hong Kong, and across America, showing how the worldwide antiquities trade is destroying what’s left of the ancient sites before archaeologists can reach them, and thus erasing their historical significance.

• Prodigiously researched . . .

  Hugh Eakin in ARTnews