The novel also reads like a mystery my favourite genre. I felt that the author’s portrayal gave a real feel to the contradictions and complexities of race relations in the South at that point in history. Powerful rich white folks, poor black folks, rich black folks, resentful poor white folks all drawn up together keeping to themselves yet so intertwined. It takes a candid look at the emotions and sensibilities on both sides of racial desegregation at a time when the inevitable was to happen. This acclaimed debut novel is set in the 1960s segregated South, specifically Revere, Mississippi. But I now know that it would have been a good read for Barbados as well had I been in the reading mood then. Now, now, I’m pretty sure the daiquiri had nothing to do with that. I finished it up under a burning sun by the rocky beach, mango daiquiri in hand and was left with such a warm and happy feeling. Once I did, I had to keep going to get to what the big secret was. This time, I had a four hour layover which was incentive enough to start the read. So I took it with me this past week to Jamaica. I took this book with me to Barbados in February but was too distracted by the blue skies, blue sea, and fine white sand to even open it.
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