Of God, Rattlesnakes, And Okra: A Preacher's Boy Tells His Growing-Up Story

from rnmackrn26

This fine little book is composed of a series of vignettes about Easterling's boyhood growing up during and after the Depression. The stories are grouped roughly by subject with some bleed-over between the sections. My deepest impression was that reading this set of stories bore strong resemblanc...

from Carolee888

Of God, Rattlesnakes & Okra by J. Bennett Easterly got off to a slow start for me. It is a collection of stories or memories of the author growing up in on a small farm in Prospect, Mississippi. He was a preacher's kid and he learned a lot from his father about telling the truth, morals and the w...

from zumpi

J. Bennett Easterling compiled his enjoyable memoirs about his upbringing in Mississippi during the Great Depression in form of little sketches about various people and subjects. The sketches or little stories range from chores on the family farm to making a teacher's life miserable, from encount...

from annwieland

I received this book as an Early Reviewer copy, and I hate to be ungrateful, but this one was as dry as toast. I'm disappointed because it's my very favorite genre...coming of age. I was thinking The Well and the Mine by Gin Phillips, or maybe A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith but this was ...

from arelenriel

This was a fairly interesting book though it had much more of a religious angle than I am usually interested in . Easterling has a succinct understanding of what it meant to grow up during one of the worst times in American history and while most books talk about how the 1% were effected by the G...