Coming of Age in Mississippi
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780606241830 (0606241833)
Publish date: January 4th 1992
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Academic,
School,
Cultural,
Read For School,
American,
African American,
American History,
Southern
I first heard this book recommended as an alternative to The Help: a memoir about the segregated South and the civil rights movement, written by a black woman who became an activist. After reading it, I consider it an excellent alternative to all those books about the segregated South written by whi...
caveat - I stopped about 2/3rds of the way. The style was so emotionally flat that it "evened out" the horror of the racism she was enduring, and the events she was witnessing, with the effect of almost sanitizing them. This was compounded by Moody coming across as self-centred (at least) and arro...
Very absorbing book during the first 3/4. I admit that I lost a little interest near the end, but overall a good solid memoir that is worth reading.
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