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A wonderful story, a first novel set in Petal Mississippi in 1956. There is an assortment of white folks and another assortment of black. The reader gets to know each and every one and how they interact with each other.
Even Grade is a 28yo black man who has lived in Petal 4 yrs. and has become friends with Canaan a black man of about 62, a self-educated man, and philosopher.Every good man must have a good woman, and Joody Two Sun, a seer, and Grace, who has worked all her life raising a white lad and caring for his mother fill that bill. Valuable Korner is a 15yo white girl, daughter of the town "HO." With all of these colorful characters you just know interesting events must take place. They do. Oprah liked this book and it was a Book of the Month selection and also a Quality Paperback Book Club selection. How wrong can you go? Read it and love it!
Even Grade is a 28yo black man who has lived in Petal 4 yrs. and has become friends with Canaan a black man of about 62, a self-educated man, and philosopher.Every good man must have a good woman, and Joody Two Sun, a seer, and Grace, who has worked all her life raising a white lad and caring for his mother fill that bill. Valuable Korner is a 15yo white girl, daughter of the town "HO." With all of these colorful characters you just know interesting events must take place. They do. Oprah liked this book and it was a Book of the Month selection and also a Quality Paperback Book Club selection. How wrong can you go? Read it and love it!
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