cover image Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

J. Anthony Lukas. Vintage Books USA, $19.95 (688pp) ISBN 978-0-394-74616-6

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the American Book Award, this book examines school integration in Boston from the vantage points of three familiesone black and two white. PW stated that Common Ground is ""highly readable and brings us as close as we are likely to get to the average person's experiences of urban racial tensions.'' (September)