O Cousin, Where Art Thou?
Danielle Allen goes in search of a family member lost in the prison system
Jabari Asim

Cuz:
The Life and Times of Michael A.
by Danielle S. Allen
Liveright
$24.95 List Price
WHEN FIRST ENCOUNTERED, Cuz might remind some readers of books such as Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman and Parallel Time by Brent Staples. In those memoirs, accomplished authors compare and contrast their successful lives with those of siblings whose missteps led them to jail or death. In Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A., Danielle Allen, a decorated scholar and Harvard professor, struggles with the short
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