by Deborah Johnson
A year-old murder, a book paralleling events and characters, and the South in the 1940's after WWII.The charm of the South as well as its deep-seated prejudices comes forth in THE SECRET OF MAGIC as Regina Robichard travels from New York City to Revere, Mississippi, to investigate the murder of a yo...
By Deborah Johnson ISBN-13: 9780399157721 Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Publication date: 1/21/2014 Pages: 416 My Rating: (5 Stars) In the Secret of Magic, the history, facts and background of the tragic murder of a young man as it blends seamlessly, with the fiction with a woman’s ...
This is a wonderful book! The book jacket does not do it justice. I almost didn’t buy it. Then I started reading and couldn’t put it down. The writing reminds me of THE HELP or TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD or IN COLD BLOOD or even MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL – all great books. A black war hero ...
The Secret of Magic is profoundly sad. Reggie’s first-time experiences in the Jim Crow South are just as upsetting for readers as they are for Reggie. What makes it worse is that none of hatred and deliberate separate-and-unequal treatment should be as surprising as it is, even to a black girl raise...
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