by Bette Greene
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Physical child abuse Mental/Emotional child abuse (including gaslighting) Grooming of young teens All the racism All the anti-Semitism All the classism Stereotypes of Southerners This horrible piece of shit story takes place a small rural town in Arkansas in 1942. Ergo, Jim Cro...
While this book is well worded, I didn't feel anything for it. I really wanted to! I mean, talk about a forbidden romance! Jewish girl and German boy during the war? I expected excitement, passion, maybe danger...Nope. Mostly dull dialogue between the two characters. While I liked both charact...
Read this about 30 yrs ago, just re-read. Some of the language might be a little shocking today but my family was from rural Mississippi and I heard similar talk when I was young. What I'd forgotten was what a total SOB Patty's dad was, slapping her in the face hard enough to knock her down and beat...
Patty Bergen is the eldest daughter of the Bergen family, who run the department store in the small town of Jenkinsville, Arkansas. For reasons known only to themselves, the Bergen’s’ treat Patty as more of a nuisance than a daughter, bestowing all their love and affection on their younger daughter...
Patty, a young Jewish girl in Arkansas who gets most of her affection from the family's black housekeeper, falls "in love" with an escaped German POW. The relationship between the two remains amorphous and far from sexual; instead, Patty's tortured relationship with her family and town is the focus...
I just thought I was releasing this book at Project Graduation. Instead, the book somehow ended up coming home with me. I read it today. What a powerful story. A young girl, criticized and cruelly treated by her parents, meets a German POW, captured and held captive in a POW camp in Arkansas during ...
Another from my salad days.
It's more interesting to me because, before reading this, I didn't know there had been POW camps in the US. The story, eh.
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