I can't say that this is one that I would recommend to someone, but I am glad that I read it. What an awful way for someone to spend the majority of their life. At times while reading the book I had to remind myself that he wasn't slow or mentaly handicapped. He was handicapped by society and the...
Sometimes you read a sentence and think, "Exactly," and believe you could've written this same thing. other times, you read something and just think, "Wow". Tom Franklin writes like that. I love how he thinks and I love how lyrical his words are. The story is a compelling look at racism, ignorance, ...
This was intense and hard...so is the subject. Racism, violence, hate, fear...and it also made me think a lot about how your home and where you are from can become a prison. It also made me think about importance friendship and having faith in other people.
Oh my dear Lord, this book is so fantastic. I literally stayed up all night reading this. I could not get enough of this story and they way Mr Franklin weaves his story with the South flowing through it all of it's glory made this un-put-downable.[return][return]Highly recommended for those who love...
Mississippi in the 1970’s was still rife with racial and class strain. For a short time Larry and Silas were unlikely friends. When a young girl disappears after going to a drive-in movie with Larry, he is the prime suspect in her disappearance. He never admitted to anything. As the reader moves...
This book was FANTASTIC. A real page turner, a mystery like none other with a great human interest and race relations undercurrent. I guess I have to admit that these are my favorite kinds of books, ones that detail the struggle between choosing what you've always been taught and forging your own id...
Worst first date ever. Poor Larry Ott, the bookish kid, the weak one, a smallish white boy, the bully-target at school, takes out the girl of his dreams, returns home alone, and gets blamed for her presumed rape and murder. Decades later, ostracized by the town, living alone in the same house he gre...
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