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Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • “In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”—The AtlanticA memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship of one student, Patrick Browning, and his remarkable literary and personal awakening. Convinced she can make a difference in the lives of her teenaged students, Michelle Kuo puts her heart into her work, using quiet reading time and guided writing to foster a sense of self in students left behind by a broken school system. Though Michelle loses some students to truancy and even gun violence, she is inspired by some such as Patrick. Fifteen and in the eighth grade, Patrick begins to thrive under Michelle’s exacting attention. However, after two years of teaching, Michelle feels pressure from her parents and the draw of opportunities outside the Delta and leaves Arkansas to attend law school. Then, on the eve of her law-school graduation, Michelle learns that Patrick has been jailed for murder. Feeling that she left the Delta prematurely and determined to fix her mistake, Michelle returns to Helena and resumes Patrick’s education—even as he sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. Every day for the next seven months they pore over classic novels, poems, and works of history. Little by little, Patrick grows into a confident, expressive writer and a dedicated reader galvanized by the works of Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, Walt Whitman, W. S. Merwin, and others. In her time reading with Patrick, Michelle is herself transformed, contending with the legacy of racism and the questions of what constitutes a “good” life and what the privileged owe to those with bleaker prospects.“A powerful meditation on how one person can affect the life of another . . . One of the great strengths of Reading with Patrick is its portrayal of the risk inherent to teaching.”—The Seattle Times“[A] tender memoir.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

At this time of writing, The Mobi Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship has garnered 9 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Mobi is Good TO READ!

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Normally I am very cynical about all these people who talk about the liberal arts education and the benefits of humanism, etc. I mean I love to read, but sometimes these claims feel as laughable as when sci-fi nerds say that watching Star Trek makes you a better human. I mean if education in the humanities is really necessary for someone to be worthwhile, then obviously most people are not living worthwhile lives, because most people care nothing for books. And that's not a conclusion that I can support.In this book though, there's so much honesty. Michelle is really specific about the effects of reading. It's not full of platitudes about how reading makes you engaged or about how reading "teaches you how to think." It's about what, at a basic level, it means to read and write and express ourselves. It's about the connection between reading and being able to write. It's so startling how as Patrick reads, he's able to express himself more clearly. And the portrait of the loneliness and isolation of the jail cell, and the way it combines with ignorance of the outside world, and how reading is a way to pierce through that apathy and get in touch with other minds.But at the same time, it's not triumphal. I mean, it's true for everybody, except a rare few, that a life of the mind is something that we only experience for brief periods. I mean if you look at your college classmates today, most of them, except the academics, probably read very few books. In college, they majored in philosophy, but that's over. They're done with learning for its own sake. Life crowds that out. You can't find the quietness anymore for reading. You can't find the quietness for writing. And in the end there's a fundamental ambiguity: what happened here? did it matter? did it make a difference in Patrick's life? I mean, it did. Obviously it did. His experience of being incarcerated was so different from many people's. Because he could read, he was less alone. And that makes a difference. But beyond that, what happened?There's no easy answer there, and that's why this book stands out.

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