The Open Road by M.M. Holaday [I am grateful to the author for sending me an advance reading copy of her novel, to be published at the beginning of April] ‘ “It’s so big out there, it’s like the ocean. The sky is huge and the land goes on forever. You’ve got to see it …
Category: race relations
A Valued Opinion
A few days ago, I wrote a short review of Harper Lee's novel Go Set A Watchman. Before reading the book and writing the review, I had made a determined effort not to read what others were saying about it. Having caught some of the press headlines, and noting their negativity, I feared that if …
Go Set A Watchman
by Harper Lee A Review 'It had never occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless pummeling activity . . . she must now go into a world of femininity, a world she despised.' On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black woman in Montgomery, Alabama refused …