I was excited to discover a few months ago a great new duo that’s helping to illuminate the Mixed experience. The Mash-up Americans is the brainchild of Amy Choi and Rebecca Lehrer, two good friends who have backgrounds in journalism and business development, and are “in the mix” by birth and by marriage and by friendship. The duo launched the newly designed Mash-up Americans website last week. I know you’ll find a lot of great stories of interest to the Mixed Remixed crowd. Check out their great work and say hello to them on Twitter too. You’ll find them at @awesomechoi and @beccale! –Heidi Durrow
olks describe it: “James McBride’s novel takes a pivotal, troubled sequence in American history—John Brown’s abolitionist campaign—and retells it in a voice as comic and original as any we have heard since Mark Twain. The narrator is one Henry Shackleford, aka Onion, an escaped teenaged slave who accompanies Brown while disguised as a girl. Fondly portraying Brown as a well-meaning but unhinged zealot, The Good Lord Bird is daringly irreverent, but also wise, funny, and affecting.” I just call it darn good.-
