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Amy Greene
Carol Ellen
, March 07, 2010
Amy Greene's first novel is a wonder: a thoroughly spellbinding story, told through the voices of several different characters, and set in the Smoky Mountains. Her portrayal of Southern mountain folks and small towns is spot on, as is her ear for the dialect peculiar to that region. (Yes, I know whereof I write: my grandmother talked like that.) Ms. Greene captures the beauty of those mountains in a way that makes my heart ache for them. But one needn't have an inborn love of the mountains to love this book; the compelling story, vividly drawn characters, and complex relationships kept me reading late into the night. I didn't want it to end, and I look forward hungrily to Ms. Greene's next book.
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Carol Ellen
, January 23, 2010
I find it astonishing that this is a first novel. It is a richly layered, fictional account of the relationships between black maids and their white employers--in 1962 Mississippi. Skillfully told from the alternating perspectives of two maids and one young (white) woman, it is funny, sad, and deeply poignant. The civil rights movement and the personal stories of these women intertwine in a way that is thought provoking and, sometimes, anger producing. Kathryn Stockett's sense of southern women is dead on (I know from experience). I can't wait for her next book!
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