Review: Pleasant and a good representation of 1940s America
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2011
I received a complementary copy of this book for my review. Where to start? The book  or author manages to delve into nearly every social, racial and economic difficulty in 1940s US. Discrimination against women and different races, violence against women/children/other races, the civil rights of black americans and so on.I liked the way she described the various social layers within the white americans, going from the suburban middle class to the poor white trash. Quite an amazing feat to get all that into one small story. It is written in an accent, which may seem a strange way of describing it, but all the way through I could hear the southern drawl. I felt like telling the main character to pull herself together and run in the opposite direction. The beginning was a little slow and at times I felt as if the author was writing the way she herself would tell the story, so the story seemed to jump from political opinion to heartbreak story then back to changing global opinion on discrimination against females for example. It was as if she wanted to tell us her views within the folds of this book, which I didn't think was a bad thing. It was a pleasant read.Garrick's Landing