Although I loved the beginning of this book and found the setting visceral, it just did not surprise me or show me anything new. If there had been more of Laura and less of everyone else it would have been so so much better. Disappointing.
Very interesting writing style. You could identify with each main character and their voice. I can't remember a point where something seemed unclear or disjointed. That in itself says a lot...
Tackling “race” relations in the American South can be treacherous, particularly when the author is white and writing from the black perspective. Anytime an author writes in the voice of another group (ethnic, gender, social class, et cetera), he better know what he is doing. Three of the six char...
Today, there are an abundance of books out there which address social issues. This is another, and this is an exceptional entrance into the milieu. The hardships of life on a farm, coupled with the abuse of sharecroppers and tenant farmers, especially blacks, who were kept illiterate, treated as les...
Great award-winning book set in the 1940s Deep South about a white farming family and their Black sharecroppers told in six voices of the characters. I think the author depicted six different viewpoints in an interesting manner.
There's a lot of depth here for such a fast, cleanly-written read. Several themes are woven into the lives of the various characters. First, the senseless intensity of the racism in the deep South of the 1940s. Second, the haunted struggles of men who came home from WWII and couldn't make a place...
A family tale set in Mississippi between the 1930’s and the 19??sJordan uses multiple narrators to offer varying perspectives on the happenings of the story. Laura is on the fast track to old maid-hood after her 30th birthday when she is introduced to Henry. He is smitten, and she likes him well eno...
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