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“Reading is migratory, an act of transport, from one life to another, one mind to another. Just like geographic travel, reading involves estrangement that comes with the process of dislocating from a familiar context. I gather energy from this kind of movement, this estranging and unsettling, and I welcome it precisely because it’s conducive to examination, interrogation, reordering. Travel, imaginative or physical, can sharpen perception and force a measuring of distance and difference.”

“In a good book, we get an intimate and nuanced picture of someone—to the point that our own prejudices are displaced (or almost entirely displaced)by the world created by the author. This is an extraordinarily important kind of social discipline: It reminds us that an important part of what it means to be human is to replace our snap judgments about people with the empirical evidence about themselves that they offer us. ~ Malcolm Gladwell in interview at back of the book. 277”