false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172463727m/178759.jpg 178759 6 When Daniel Musgroves family moves to a small Mississippi town at the beginning of his junior year, he faces all the pain and thrills of adolescence, with extra helpings of hormones and humiliation. But then he meets Tim, a fellow outsider, and the two become fast friends. You only need one best friend, Daniel reasons, to make it through high school alive. Together, they negotiate the triumphs and tribulations of junior year: going to the prom in sky blue tuxes (it is 1973, after all), playing in an original Baptist musical entitled Christ!, and an unforgettable encounter with their secret heroes, Sonny and Cher. But when the first-ever black prom queen of Minor High School is hit by a car and emerges from her coma believing she's white, Daniel and Tim find themselves caught up in a shocking chain of events that leads to a shattering climax. In the spirit of Richard Russo and Tom Perrotta, Mark Childress is one of our sharpest and most keen-eyed chroniclers of small-town life. ONE MISSISSIPPI is his most ambitious and accomplished novel yet. 172698 2006 One Mississippi: A Novel total:706|5:109|4:262|3:240|2:75|1:20| 706 2483 974 176 1 2 false false Thu Dec 13 05:49:14 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 07:06:28 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 29 16:43:37 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 17:02:39 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false true Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 08 05:39:09 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 05:00:29 -0800 2009
I think the thing I liked about this book the most was that you accompanied the main character for a good part of his life and went through the ups and down...more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Aug 12 07:25:45 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 09:20:20 -0700 2008
It starts off simple, innocent, and I found myself thinking--okay, I've seen this before. Yet another coming of age story. But very quickly, I realized that there was oh-so-much more going on in ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Jan 02 14:56:59 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 22:22:27 -0800 2008 Like Mark Childress' ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 02 17:03:52 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 16 18:13:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 15 15:06:48 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 18:07:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue May 19 09:23:21 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 08:47:28 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 09:23:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 14:23:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 06:23:44 -0700 2009
This was the first Mark Childress book that I read and cannot wait to delve into another one!!

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I'm all for a book with a good twist, but when it feels like a novel should be broken in two, the twist is just too extreme. I was enjoying the novel for the first couple dozen pages, then struggled to get past the fact that Arnita got amnesia so bad she forgot that she ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 21 22:23:18 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 19:06:58 -0800 2007 Readers in Red Sneakers: A Humorous Book Club.

Stephen King says it is the funniest book he has read in 10 years.

I have a sense of humor, and the book does have some humorous elements.
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In this case, the hype was justified. "One Mississippi" has everything a book needs to become a bestseller without selling out - warmt...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jan 02 21:20:22 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 21:27:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 04 20:11:52 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 11 17:55:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 28 05:43:22 -0700 2007 Tue May 22 14:01:55 -0700 2007
'One Mississippi' takes place in the 1970's in (guess where?) Mississippi. Daniel and his family are '...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:37:59 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 17 11:44:14 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=178759