I really enjoyed this read. I knew very little about the personal lives of the American artists and writers in Europe at that time. Now that I have read about Hemingway\\\'s personal life and first marriage, his early works make more sense.

This is an unusual premise: a white supremacist walks into the office of a human rights organization headed by a Holocaust survivor and tells them, \\\"I want to help you guys save guys like me from becoming guys like me.\\\" It is a story of trust, learning to live a larger life than most of us are given, but it also tells of the costs to relationships, family, for the people doing this work.

It\'s a good story.

Gladwell\\\'s approach to exploration of issues related to meeting the \\\"big guy\\\" was an interesting read for me.

This is my second reading of Dakota, many years after the first read. Kathleen Norris describes western Dakota near where I grew up , but on the Montana side. Reading it, I felt as if Norris had gotten inside my head and described the culture of my youth. She uses humor in her writing, which is beautiful and poetic.