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Sweetsmoke,
Written By: David Fuller
Published By: Hyperion, 2008, First Edition, 320 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4013-2331-8
“Sweetsmoke is a poignant novel that leads you through the life and mind of a black slave and the worries and difficulties he faces as he goes ‘on a mission’ to find the person who murdered his one, true friend.”BCM
Cassius is a slave-carpenter who is owned by the Howard’s of Sweetsmoke plantation. His life, like that of other slaves in the South, is controlled and manipulat ...more
Written By: David Fuller
Published By: Hyperion, 2008, First Edition, 320 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4013-2331-8
“Sweetsmoke is a poignant novel that leads you through the life and mind of a black slave and the worries and difficulties he faces as he goes ‘on a mission’ to find the person who murdered his one, true friend.”BCM
Cassius is a slave-carpenter who is owned by the Howard’s of Sweetsmoke plantation. His life, like that of other slaves in the South, is controlled and manipulat ...more
Sweetsmoke is, without exception, the best novel I've read this year.
You can read my full review at Amazon but I just want to say it combines the best of mystery, historical fiction and human drama in one novel.
I recommend it to everyone without hesitation. ...more
You can read my full review at Amazon but I just want to say it combines the best of mystery, historical fiction and human drama in one novel.
I recommend it to everyone without hesitation. ...more
Feb 22, 2011
Shellie (Layers of Thought)
marked it as to-read
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