I finished Blackberry Wine and concluded it was a charming book. Then I moved on to some “heavier” reading.
The Uses of Disorder, written by Richard Sennett, examines personal identity and city life. It’s wildly outdated (having been published in 1970), with current event commentary like "if the war in Vietnam ever ends" and frequent references to communist revolutions. But the heart of the matter still seems to ring true.
"The theme of this book is that there appears in adolescence a set of strengths and desires which can lead in themselves to a self-imposed slavery; that the current organization of communities encourages men to enslave themselves in adolescent ways; [and] that it is possible to break through this framework to achieve an adulthood whose freedom lies in its acceptance of disorder and painful dislocation..."
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