them Author:Joyce Carol Oates From goodreads: — From the 1930s through the race riots of 1967, the members of the Wendall family, living in inner-city Detroit, struggle to understand the obscure forces constantly tearing at their lives and happiness. Winner of the National Book Award. — 'When Miss Oates' potent, lifegripping imagination and her skill at narrative are conjoined... more », as they are pre-eminently in THEM, she is a prodigious writer.' -The Nation (less)« less