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May 12, 2011
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This book is an easy read and enjoyable. Reading the author's own account of her maid at the end sort ended the book on a bad note though. I think that it is hard for anyone born in Jackson, including me, to understand and accurately portray the feelings of race in a culture that still prides itself on the Antebellum era. Living in Jackson for 2 years but being raised by a mother who was born and bred in Jackson left me with wounds that will keep me from ever understanding the complexity of not
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2012 review originally appeared at Jayne's Books.
I really enjoyed this. I didn't really know what people truly thought of the book and really tried to avoid any sort of notion of what the book was about until I had finished the book so as to escape disappointment with the book. And hence I was able to enjoy it much more than I probably would have had I either read reviews of the book or watched the movie that came out a few months ago on DVD.
I felt that it took sometime for the story to start d ...more
I really enjoyed this. I didn't really know what people truly thought of the book and really tried to avoid any sort of notion of what the book was about until I had finished the book so as to escape disappointment with the book. And hence I was able to enjoy it much more than I probably would have had I either read reviews of the book or watched the movie that came out a few months ago on DVD.
I felt that it took sometime for the story to start d ...more
Aug 29, 2011
Amanda
marked it as to-read
Jan 17, 2015
Scott Flicker
marked it as to-read
