This is not only a coming-of-age story, but also a story of how it is to grow old. White Trash on the other hand are looked down upon, and many of the new inventions of that era are interwoven into the plot – cars, telephones, house plumbing and electricity. The whites certainly don’t see their black servants as their equals but they are not cruel.
Although it gives a pretty good depiction of small town life in Georgia, it says nothing about racial inequities which of course still remained after the Civil War. My own response to the two first questions is not affirmative, and that is why I cannot give it more than two stars. Do you enjoy a sweet story? Are you a religious person with deep faith? Do you enjoy books set in the South at the turn of the century? Then this book is probably a good choice for you.
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