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I actually finished Mark Long’s graphic novel The Silence of Our Friends<\/a><\/em> a while ago. However, I wanted to say so much about this novel…and I could never really find the time to write down all the thoughts that I had and all the social commentary I wanted to examine. Things have been so tumultuous lately…but with every day that passed that I didn’t get the chance to write about this, the more heavily it preyed upon me. It wasn’t until this morning that I realized that it had become something so much more than just another BookBin review, and that the proportions to which it had grown mentally were now making it nearly insurmountable. <\/p>\n

That’s not what should have happened. That’s not what I ever intended. So, let’s reel it back and start with something simple. Here is the book’s description: <\/p>\n

As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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