The Uprooted and Other Stories Joe Vitale and traveling by wagon through

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The Uprooted and Other Stories Joe Vitale and traveling by wagon throughHeadlines about displacement, identity, and alienation are in the news every day, but little real insight into these issues is available from Twitter feeds and short news items. The role of a fiction writer at the present juncture is not just to be always observing, as Henry James had it, but also to explore and analyze issues of global concern in all their richness and complexity. Michael Washburn's tales about the theme of "uprooted ness" are