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Eleanor Summers dresses her autobiography up like a novel, but the image of rural Oregon and poverty reveals the truth. From the crooked river gorge to the fireworks over pilot butte, Eleanor Summers story In The Fringe, keeps the pages turning with images that are familiar, personal, and distinctly Oregon. At the very bottom of our cultural ladder, Summers takes on the topic of poverty and ignorance, disconnection and intolerance, subject matter usually examined from the top down by social scholars.

If the story doesn't get you, the introduction will. Her Introduction to the Fringe is a cultural examination that doesn't pull any punches. The author exposes the soft underbelly of the American Dream; cultural disillusion.

If you don't understand the introduction or the story...be grateful! You are firmly established in the American Way of life, and ignorance is bliss.

-- posted by c71767