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Through a Blue-Eyed Lens is a poignant memoir that takes the reader on the improbale journey of Shelley, a young white girl, in the 1960s South. When Shelley arrives from teh outer reaches of Wyoming, her new stage is Memphis, a segregated city increasingly steeped in conflict and turmoil. By recounting the ways in which she navigated b
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