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The varied responses to the question "why are you poor?" fuels this meditation on the nature of poverty by journalist and National Book Award–winning novelist Vollmann (Europe Central, etc.). The book, structured as a series of vignettes that span the globe and decades, describes Vollmann's encounters with individuals and families who many would consider poor. A handful of these people, including three generations of women in Thailand and two men in Japan, drive the book, as Vollmann closely examines their circumstances. His alternately sentimental and erudite inquiry is based in large part on his and their personal experience, as an antidote to the official and scientific data about poverty. Indeed, his attempt to understand poverty is deeply entwined with a more poetic inquiry into happiness. Some of the anecdotes set aflight by Vollmann's novelistic attention to details are provocative;others, however, come off as more nostalgic than illustrative, and give the book a desultory feel. But the book's movement between details and thought, spiced with Vollmann's singular style, is intriguing. On the table is not just poverty, but questions of community, fate and perspective. The book's greatest accomplishment is that—unlike other works of this sort—it's neither guilt producing nor guilt absolving. At the end, there's no implied sigh or self-congratulation, for writer or reader. This is the book's greatest achievement.(Mar.)
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*Starred Review* In Rising Up and Rising Down (2003), intrepid writer of conscience Vollmann conducted an all-out investigation into violence. He now turns his voracious attentiveness to another pillar of human suffering and another subject swamped with ambiguity--poverty. A writer of epic empathy impelled to visit hot spots all over the world, Vollmann, winner of the National Book Award for his novel Europe Central (2005), has created a bracing mix of risky oral history, passionate social observation, and bold interpretation that illuminates not only the obvious deprivations suffered by poor people but also the impoverishment of their inner lives. Vollmann speaks with fellow Americans and with people in places he has come to know rather well for an outsider, including Thailand, Russia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kazakhstan, and Mexico. The individuals Vollmann portrays, the frank questions he asks, and the fatalistic responses he records reveal the vast "dimensions of poverty" and our feeling of helplessness when confronted with so much pain. But for all the sorrow Vollmann catalogs, his persistent and compassionate pursuit of the truth reminds us of all that we share as human beings and all that we can do for each other. Donna Seaman
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