| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.4

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Healing the Heart, Healing the 'Hood

By Olgen Williams

(West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 135. $21.95.)

Healing the Heart, Healing the 'Hood might be categorized as an autobiography: the literary narration of one's own life. Author Olgen Williams, director of Christamore House (an Indianapolis community center with roots in the settlement house tradition), indicates in the text that the book is the product of a student assignment to write an autobiography (p. ix). I feel, however, that it would be more accurate to categorize the work as an autobiographical sketch—a good outline, but one that invites more questions than satisfaction.

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