7/1/2023 0 Comments Telegraph avenue book![]() ![]() Chabon couldn’t help but include a very on-topic cameo - the future President Obama, in 2004, comforting one of the novel’s central characters, Gwen, in the midst of the toughest of pregnancies (the kind where your husband’s just been caught cheating, you’ve been told you’re worthless as a midwife by an insufferable yuppie doctor, and a musical genius you love has just up and died). ![]() ![]() It’s also about Quentin Tarantino, gentrification, and the uncertain fate of America’s integrationist experiment. 11, is about two men of different races running a record store on the street that connects Berkeley and Oakland - and their wives, partners in a midwifery business. ![]()
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