I am a big fan of the writing by Elizabeth Strout. I was very happy to find a book by her at the library that I hadn't read before. This one is called The Burgess Boys. The Burgess boys, James and Bob, along with their sister Susan, grew up in Shadow Falls Maine. Now the brothers live in New York City and work as lawyers. Their sister lives in their family home in Maine. One day she calls her brothers and asks them to come home because her son, Zach, is in a world of trouble. He impulsively took a pig head and rolled it in the door of a building. He didn't know that this building was a mosque. He didn't know his behavior was culturally widely inappropriate. Some people in Shadow Falls are disappointed that so many Somali people are moving to Shadow Falls. This wonderful story is about family bonds and immigration.
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