Nate
Better than I expected. I’d never read this when I was younger and in the last 10 years I’ve been making a list of books I wish I had read. This is one of them. It didn’t disappoint. The language and terminology from that time period and part of the country were a small hurdle in the first chapter or two, but the characters and the story more than made up for it. If you want to know what it was like in the south in the early 20th century, the classes, the racial challenges, how the law treated people at the time, this is definitely a window into what the author thought of the time and some of it seems to have the ring of truth. The characters really make the book come alive. To me it distills the essence of family and neighbors. Definitely worth reading.
Better than I expected. I’d never read this when I was younger and in the last 10 years I’ve been making a list of books I wish I had read. This is one of them. It didn’t disappoint. The language and terminology from that time period and part of the country were a small hurdle in the first chapter or two, but the characters and the story more than made up for it. If you want to know what it was like in the south in the early 20th century, the classes, the racial challenges, how the law treated people at the time, this is definitely a window into what the author thought of the time and some of it seems to have the ring of truth. The characters really make the book come alive. To me it distills the essence of family and neighbors. Definitely worth reading.
