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Night Talk: A Novel
Recently Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Night Talk has served as an inspiration for honest discussions of race around the country.
A beautiful, moving story of the unlikely and enduring friendship of two girls, one white and one black, who grew up together in the radically divided deep South.
At night, under the same roof, under the same moon, n
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A beautiful, moving story of the unlikely and enduring friendship of two girls, one white and one black, who grew up together in the radically divided deep South.
At night, under the same roof, under the same moon, n
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
November 15th 1998
by St. Martin's Griffin
(first published 1997)
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I admit I picked up this book with trepidation. (bought at a library sale). Stories like these, a black child and white child and their experiences in the Jim Crow and Civil Rights era South can often be shallow, simplistic and patronizing to both races. I am so happy to say that this book creates such a lush, vivid portrait of their lives that I will never look at a book of this genre with the same prejudice again.
Ms. Cox has first and foremost created a tale of true friendship and love between...more
Ms. Cox has first and foremost created a tale of true friendship and love between...more
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So interesting to read Night Talk on the heels of The Help--the word-of-mouth book-of-the-day that book clubs all over town are reading. Night Talk is about the same time and place (almost) and deals with the same changing sensibilities as The Help. Cox's story is wonderfully told. Quiet. Important. Honest. Hopeful.
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