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Ladataan... American Ghost: A NovelTekijä: Janis Owens
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. In her fourth novel (after The Schooling of Claybird Catts), Owens takes on an ugly subject and largely succeeds with an engrossing story. Based on the last reported lynching in America, Owens relocates the history to a tiny Florida town, where, in 1938, Henry Kite, a black man, was lynched after shooting a Jewish storekeeper. Decades later, the storekeeper's great-grandson, Sam, a graduate student in anthropology, arrives to investigate the lynching. Things get complicated when he falls for Jolie, a Pentecostal preacher's daughter whose family are thought of as "inbred hillbillies." Summary BPL Before I read American Ghost, I understood that the term "cracker" was inseparable from "Georgia". Turns out that there are Florida crackers too! Despite the backstory of the 1938 lynching of a black man who shot killed a white store owner, the novel details the 21st century incarnation of the people who perpetrated and celebrated the long ago torture and murder not only of the shooter, but his family as well. Ms Owen treads carefully: a credible romance between a Christian "cracker" and a Jewish intellectual from Miami lighten the thematic burden while serving as a modern day reveal for the rural community's violent xenophobia. Ms Owens is compared to Marjorie Rawlins and Flannery O'Connor on the book's jacket. Inaccurate and misleading, in my opinion. Her style more closely resembles Ron Rash's and his Appalachia novels; both authors write with an intimate authority about their respective regions. 8 out of 10. Recommended to readers of contemporary fiction, American history and Florida history. I actually had to go and check with Wiki to find out what the cracker culture in Florida was all about. This was a very interesting, extremely well written and easy to read story. The character development was wonderful and this is one of the few books that I can say I liked almost every character. Inspired by a true event, a horrible lynching, relatively late in the 1930's, this book highlights the cracker culture of Southern Florida, their superstitions and strong family clans. Shows how much past events can affect the future and how everyone's views of the same event can differ. Loved reading the story of Joe and Sam and loved how Jolie talked and thought of her father. I highly recommend this book, it was a wonderful combination of history, family ties and mystery. näyttää 4/4 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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"A compelling, deeply rewarding novel from a unique southern storyteller, American Ghost is Janis Owens' richly woven story about how unresolved family history and the racial tensions of the past threaten a love affair between two young Floridians"-- Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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Loved reading this story and talking with the author about her research into this episode in our American past.
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