Review: Beautiful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2014
Once again, I am floored by the beautiful writing style of Vastine Bondurant. Vastine has a gift for capturing the era her stories take place in and describe it so well that you feel like you are actually there, back in that time. Glory Lands is another example of her wonderful writing. I also love how she writes from the points of view from her main characters.The story begins in 1922 with an event that happened in real life, but sets the tone for the bad guy in the story. A young Emory Joe and his father, Charles, witness the innocent murder of Othello “Ted” Jones, a black man, by Deputy Elihu Bishop. Fast-forward to 1931, when Charles “saw something in my son, my darling Emory Joe, and wondered how I’ve been so blind all of his nineteen years to have missed it;” the day that he and Emory Joe met Glory Lands. Elihu Bishop is still the law, but is now Sheriff. No spoilers here, but have some tissues on hand. I highly recommend this story.