Review: Deep story from the deep South
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
Deep South novels have been my favorite since I turned the last page of Gone With the Wind. Barbara Robinson has managed to capture both the past and present days of plantation life from before the Civil War to the aftermath of Katrina. Her historical adages enlighten our present day speech with the tongues of both slaves and their owners. The food she describes makes this reader hungry for cornbread, rice and red beans. I hope there is another book about River Oakes or one of her neighbors soon to follow.