"Brockmeier, a Little Rock author, wrote "The Brief History of the Dead," "The Truth about Celia" and "Things that Fall From the Sky;" two children's books "Groves: A Kind of Mystery," about a seventh-grader who receives messages when he rubs a Victorola needle in the ridges of his jeans, or on a certain brand of potato chips, and "City of Names," about a third grader who orders a book of pickle jokes and receives instead a map of his hometown that contains the real names of buildings."
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"Brockmeier gives a possible explanation for the idea of The City in the epigraph from Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. The excerpt from Loewen's book tells about an African tribal belief in the sasha, "the recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people" still living, or the living-dead. One is not dead, or zamani, until the last person to remember them dies."
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