Catfish Alley, (Paperback)

from LeHack

This was probably the best book I have read this year. This is Lynne Bryant's debut novel. The story is a narrative told by several characters. Roxanne Reeves grew up poor, her mother a cook for a wealthy family in Louisiana. Roxanne wants a different life, marries well, and moves to Mississippi....

from Enamoredsoul

I began to read "Catfish Alley" by Lynne Bryant, thinking it was merely going to be an entertaining book. I did not expect for it to open up rivers of joy and pain inside of me - but that is exactly what this amazing book did. "Catfish Alley" chronicles the lives of various Southern women, who ar...

from mpmleonard

I sometimes feel like I've read more than my fair share of stories about slavery, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era but this book offers a unique and interesting take on black/white relations in Mississippi. The story starts in 2003 with Roxanne, a white woman, who finds herself with the task of ...

from LeHack

This was probably the best book I have read this year. This is Lynne Bryant's debut novel. The story is a narrative told by several characters. Roxanne Reeves grew up poor, her mother a cook for a wealthy family in Louisiana. Roxanne wants a different life, marries well, and moves to Mississippi....

from Enamoredsoul

I began to read "Catfish Alley" by Lynne Bryant, thinking it was merely going to be an entertaining book. I did not expect for it to open up rivers of joy and pain inside of me - but that is exactly what this amazing book did. "Catfish Alley" chronicles the lives of various Southern women, who ar...