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Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Books can make a difference in dispelling prejudice and building community: not with role models and recipes, not with noble messages about the human family, but with enthralling stories that make us imagine the lives of others. A good story lets you know people as individuals in all their particularity and conflict; and once you see someone as a person-flawed, complex, striving-you've reached beyond stereotype.