| Author: | Paulette Boudreaux | ISBN: | 9780932112668 |
| Publisher: | Blair | Publication: | May 2, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Carolina Wren Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Paulette Boudreaux |
| ISBN: | 9780932112668 |
| Publisher: | Blair |
| Publication: | May 2, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Carolina Wren Press |
| Language: | English |
Even if you think you know what it was like to grow up poor and black in the Jim Crow South, this novel will be a revelation to your understanding. Paulette Bourdreaux's first novel, and winner of the first Lee Smith Novel Prize, is a riveting, scary, and finally, uplifting account of a family's life in 1960s Mississippi. The novel was a finalist for the prestigious Crook's Corner Prize. Said Tayari Jones(An American Marriage): "This soaring story provs what teh old folks say: the truth really does set us free."
Even if you think you know what it was like to grow up poor and black in the Jim Crow South, this novel will be a revelation to your understanding. Paulette Bourdreaux's first novel, and winner of the first Lee Smith Novel Prize, is a riveting, scary, and finally, uplifting account of a family's life in 1960s Mississippi. The novel was a finalist for the prestigious Crook's Corner Prize. Said Tayari Jones(An American Marriage): "This soaring story provs what teh old folks say: the truth really does set us free."
