Written in a style reminiscent of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, this novel has a magical Southern charm. It is more than just a story. It is an old-fashioned "telling" -- the kind of telling that might be passed down from generation to generation by grandmas and grandpas, aunties and uncles... never quite finding its way to pen and paper. Luckily for us though, it did. The prose flows from the pages with a lyrical grace. Like a small stream might trickle down a pebbled creek bed in the Summer heat, the tale slowly meanders along only to pick up pace moments later like the creek might after a heavy rainfall. |