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Title: This Is My Life!!!
Review: I read a review in the San Francisco Chronicle that raved about the book, calling it "superbly" written and reported. I couldn't agree more. Finally, someone has written about the dreaded C word (CLASS). Living here in San Francisco, capital of the PC Nation, it's long been my pet peeve that all this obsession about diversity focuses on race and ethnicity and even sexual orientation, but always ignores the biggest divider of us all: class. But rather than make the topic boring (i.e., scholarly), the author uses the personal stories of scores of people to show how you can take the Kid Out of His Blue-Collar Roots, But You Can't Take the Blue-Collar Roots Out of the Kid. The personal stories are funny and poignant, and - as the daughter of Southern European immigrants who still feels out-of-place among white-collar friends and colleagues - they spoke to me.
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