Just as a writer trying to understand shtetl life might read shalom Aleichem or Bashevis Singer,in the same way writers trying to understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records by the missisipi delta blues man Charlie Patton.

(A) in the same way writers trying to understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records

(B) in the same way writers who try and understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records

(C) So a Writer trying to understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records

(D)So do writers try and understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records

(E) then writers trying to understand Black life in the American South might well listen to records