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Amuse Your Senses Lifestyle / Art / Books / Music / Travel / T.V. & Film / Amuse Blog / Celeb Photos / Entertaining Hold Love Strong Read of the Week In Hold Love Strong (Simon & Schuster, $24.99) debut author Matthew Aaron Goodman weaves a rich and impressive narrative about an impoverished family struggling to survive in a Queens, New York housing project during the mid-eighties. It's a story we're more than familiar with: teenage pregnancy, crack-addicted mothers, and brothers, cousins and nephews getting locked up for selling crack. We've seen our entire community ripped in half during this time and we're still feeling the after effects. Yet rarely do we get to glimpse the internal struggle of those immersed inside of it. Rarely do we see them as victims, not necessarily helpless, but without help. In Hold Love Strong, Goodman introduces us to this life via the book's protaganist, Abraham Singleton, with prose so poetic and intoxicating each page makes you want to cry and shake your head in disgust all at once. Through Abraham's coming of age, we get to be the proverbial fly on the wall, listening, watching, hoping for a triumph beyond his travails. That you completely forget the protaganist is not real and the author is not African American, is even more telling. Similar to Authur Golden, the writer of the equally profilic Memoirs of A Geisha, Hold Love Strong, proves that ethnic diversity is no barrier for intimate authenticity. $24.99, available at BN.com.     Related Articles   |  Print   Archives   Register for Our Newsletter Follow Us On Twitter Become a Fan on Facebook RSS Feed Share Recent Articles Most Popular 1. Look of the Week 2. Jay-Z's On To The Next One 3. Fela is Fab 1. New, Fresh Scents 2. New Hair Styles 3. 5 Swine Flu Questions

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