sleepyThe story is compelling. In places keeping track of the characters is difficult, but perhaps those blends of plantation-aristocrat and swampland-hardscrabble names unique to the south contribute. A reader with a good sense of 1960s product introductions will recognize a few anachronisms, some that the author acknowledges in the postlude. She also begs forbearance for the use of dialect by some of her characters. It's not cartoonish to draw readers' attention to the effect of separate but equal education on language. And ... for those who have seen the movie ... a few acts of civil disobedience didn't make that cut. Excellent pacing and timing of those events.
(Cross-posted to Cold Spring Shops.)
