Suitcase Full of Dreams (Paperback)

from Tara22

Although this book was kind of hard for me to read for the fact that the stories frequently jumped around to basically unrelated events and memories in Cat's life I thoroughly appreciated the experience. I just could not imagine living in such a world of fear and degradation and not completely fa...

from Judgejudy2u

First, I did enjoy the book. Most of it was very easy to read the way it was written, much of it very poetic but there were times in the book when the author would be describing a very serious matter and the next paragraph would just skip to another subject and not really have any connection. The...

from nightprose

This is a beautifully written book of growing up in 1940s-1950s Alabama. Hoy grows up poor, but her memoir is full of a child's fun and dreams. She manages to also write about the troubled ways of the adults in her life with sensitivity. As an African American child in the South, Hoy relates her ...

from sherton

"There is a hardness to life that I couldn't understand." ~Hoy Kersh Ms. Kersh's wonderful prose brings me back to the first time I read Harper Lee's, "To Kill a Mockingbird". Her descriptions of her family, her surroundings and growing up in the tumultuous South make you feel like you were right...

from eheinlen

This book wasn't really my type of book. The plot was OK, but it didn't really grab my attention. The same goes for the writing style. I found it to be clunky in places, but, overall, it was OK. I also found some sections to be too informal, almost like it was transcribed from a recording. Howeve...