Reviews for The Outskirts of Hope

Kirkus Reviews | May 4, 2015
“An important, riveting history lesson that, unfortunately, is still relevant today.”
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Story Circle Book Reviews | April 24, 2015
“Ivester’s memoir is a powerful story of the effect one family has on a community and fills in another piece of the history of the civil rights movement.”
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Los Altos Town Crier
“Sometimes the best stories are those that have a relatively simple narrative.”
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Jewish Book Council
“1n 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his Jewish family from a suburb of Boston to an all-black town in the Mississippi cotton fields so that he could become the medical director of a clinic meant to serve the poorest region in the nation.”
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Interviews

KXAN | April 15, 2015
Jo Ivester joins the Standard to talk about life in Mount Bayou, Mississippi and what she learned through her mother’s work.
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NPR’s Author Corner | April 14, 2015
Jo Ivester reads from The Outskirts of Hope
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Slice of MIT Podcast
Jo Ivester ’77 discusses her new book, The Outskirts of Hope, a memoir written in collaboration with her mother, about life in Mound Bayou, Mississippi in the 1960s.
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Additional Coverage

The Cleveland Current | March 15, 2015
Mound Bayou resident pens book
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Austin American Statesman | July 15, 2015
Local author recalls time in Civil Rights-era South
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Social Miami
The Outskirts of Hope
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Miami Herald | May 7, 2015
Friends and Neighbors: Author to speak at Books & Books about journey with her mother
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Austin Chronicle | April 14, 2015
The Outskirts of Hope: Jo Ivester launches civil rights-era memoir
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She Writes | December 14, 2014
Behind the Book: The Outskirts of Hope
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Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni | April 2014
Class Notes
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Steamboat Today | June 18, 2015
Off the Beaten Path to showcase a number of local and visiting authors
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Reed College Alumni Magazine | June 2015
Reediana Briefs
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Westlake Picayune | July 15, 2015
Local author recalls time in Civil Rights-era South
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