![]() As the legendary Berkeley Birth Partners, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe have worked together for many years, and their husbands are business partners as well.Why do Archy and Nat see the imminent arrival of ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode's mega-mall as a threat not only to their record shop, but to the community at large?.Telegraph Avenue, the real-life Bay Area street at the center of the story, is described as "the ragged fault where the urban plates of Berkeley and Oakland subducted." How do the conflicting cultures of upper-middle-class Berkeley and working-class Oakland clash in the novel?.How do these differences affect her marriage, as well as her position in this close-knit Oakland communityboth in her own view and in the view of others? Like her husband, Archy, Gwen is African American, but of a decidedly different social class, upbringing, and education.Would you say that Telegraph Avenue is fundamentally a novel about race? The majority of the characters in the novel are members of some minority group≺frican American, Jewish, Asian. ![]() ![]() What might the author be trying to convey through these complicated liaisons? There are many different variations on father-and-son relationshipsboth real and makeshiftexplored in the novel. ![]()
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