Literary Update

All I can say about his audiobook is WOW, WOW WOW!!! Well, I'm going to say more anyway.

This is one of the best audiobooks I have ever listened to....It is about the early 60's in Mississippi- a budding young closet liberal journalist who was raised by a black maid/caregiver takes down the stories of the local maids.  This, against the backdrop of all the Civil Rights events of the early 60's. The violence was unimaginable (not that the author dwells on it too much), and the fear was real.

It is fascinating to me that we grew up during a time when there were laws against intermingling of the races, along with so many other backward laws.  This is what would now be considered history -how did we get so old that we were alive during "history"?  I just can't get over it!

The voices are absolutely phenomenal. Each woman's story a work of art.  Never have the miles flown by so easily.

Pick this book up (if you haven't yet) or wait til I get home, and I will be happy to lend it to anyone.