Read this in ten days in May. It was a brutal historical novel about the Jim Crow south in 1946. I had been reading several books lately about the black experience in the south and this powerful novel was another eye opening thought provoker about the struggling lives of sharecroppers and the their racists environment. It was a well written moving and tragic novel about life on a cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta following World War II. The novel also provided a glimpse of life for two families, one white and one black, in the Jim Crow 30's and 40's too.
It was amazing that this was a debut novel for this author. I found about this novel because it was made into a film in 2017 and recently saw that it was streaming online. I thought to read it first before seeing the movie. She has written a couple of other novels that I will be reading in the near future.
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