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carlybrkkr's review
5.0
This book was just so amazing and beautiful and had a great message and I didn’t expect to love it but I did and it made me emotional
tapsandtomes's review
3.0
This was a mandatory read in high school, and I hated it--probably because I had to read it a chapter at a time, waiting for everyone else. The second time around it was much better.
lordofthemoon's review
5.0
I studied this book many years ago at school and had really enjoyed it but it was an awfully long time ago and couldn't really remember much about it. After re-reading it, I'm pleased that it's as good as I remember, telling the story of life in a small town in 1930s deep south US through the eyes of a young girl whose father is a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Its themes of racism, division and small-town mentality all still ring true today, but it also takes pleasure in the gentility of the South, the fact that everyone in this town knows everyone else and the general feel of the 1930s. It's telling that even the attitudes of the more enlightened characters are still not what would be considered acceptable today, but then progress takes time. A highly recommended read.
Its themes of racism, division and small-town mentality all still ring true today, but it also takes pleasure in the gentility of the South, the fact that everyone in this town knows everyone else and the general feel of the 1930s. It's telling that even the attitudes of the more enlightened characters are still not what would be considered acceptable today, but then progress takes time. A highly recommended read.
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