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A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2012<br>A Booklist 2012 Editor's Choice Selection <br> Kozol's storytelling gifts shine through: with simple anecdotes that show the soulful humor, compassion, and wisdom that kindles progress among the survivors. - Christian Science Monitor <br> Fire in the Ashes isn't some saccharine account of how disadvantaged youth get a break and then triumph over adversity. Instead, Kozol shows us the very real costs of putting children in bad schools....Throughout, Kozol connects with these kids and young adults on a human level, refusing to step on to some political soapbox. - Boston Globe<br> <br> As I read Fire in the Ashes and thought about Kozol's admirably principled commitment to chronicling the lives of the urban poor, I marveled at his staying power. His tone, too, has been consistent for almost 50 years - cool, smart, empathetic and, despite all the evidence to rebut his convictions, full of hope....Kozol's brilliant body of work shines a light not merely on the lives of the poor, but also into the dark night of the American soul. - Portland Oregonian <br> Check out this magnificent book, because I think you'll like it. For anyone [who] cares about his fellow human, Fire in the Ashes burns bright. - Savannah Morning News <br> Engrossing chronicle of lives blighted and redeemed....Eschewing social science jargon and deploying extraordinary powers of observation and empathy, Kozol crafts dense, novelistic character studies that reveal the interplay between individual personality and the chaos of impoverished circumstances. Like a latter-day Dickens (but without the melodrama), he gives us another powerful indictment of America's treatment of the poor. - Publisher's Weekly (starred) <br> In this engaging, illuminating, often moving book, [Kozol] recounts the lives of poor black and Latino children--many now close friends--who once lived in Manhattan's Martinique Hotel....Cleareyed, compass

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Jonathan Kozol is the National Book Award-winning author of Savage Inequalities, Death at an Early Age, The Shame of the Nation, and Amazing Grace. He has been working with children in inner-city schools for nearly fifty years.

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