Page from a Tennessee Journal: Library Edition

from adcoletx

The separation of blacks and white in the early 1900's are depicted through the lives of a married sharecropper family and the white farmer family they work for. Annalaura, the sharecropper's wife, is left without money or food for her children and faces being evicted from her ramshackle room (a ...

from JoAnnSmithAinsworth

A tale of the Old South. Having lived with grandparents who were young in these years, I know the sentiments are true to the times. Females were as restricted and controlled by societal norms as told in the novel.

from tshrope

The writing style of this novel seems to be typical of the new writers coming out of Writers' Workshops these days; generic. While the stories and settings are different, the overall style and tone of these new “serious” novels are the same. It's as if they are all part of an upscale chain of res...