As Hot As It Was You Ought To Thank Me, Chinaberry

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As Hot As It Was You Ought To Thank Me

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Nanci Kincaid

Why are so many Southern novels such extraordinarily good reads? Set in a small town in Florida during the '50s, this book pulls you in just like a swelteringly humid, cricket-filled night gets under your skin. As Hot As It Was You Ought to Thank Me becomes more than a story; it becomes something that seduces every one of your senses and consumes you.

Berry, on the verge of adolescence, tells the story. One of 3 children -- the middle child and only girl -- she is wise beyond her years. We see that, but it seems few others do. Her father is principal of the small school, while her mother is a woman whose free-spirited spark is alive and surviving as well as can be expected in the tiny community held together by its sheer smallness, yet pulled apart by exactly the same thing.

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Berry is reminiscent of Scout, from To Kill a Mockingbird. She is smart, yet so unassuming -- working magic with her descriptions to make us feel as if we know exactly what she is seeing and feeling. We meet plenty of townspeople and neighbors, but we always know that their lives are more complicated than what we see. There is the reclusive family living way out of town who don't send their kids to school, and we are hungry to know the secret that Rennie, the oldest girl, is hiding. There is the Methodist minister whose actions bring the entire population to jaw-dropping disbelief. There is the hurricane that destroys the school and nearly destroys some of the lives we've come to care about. All the while, Berry continues to grow up, sharing her thoughts and desires with us so intimately that we ache for her and wish her a better life than she has had until now.

From the book's beginning, we are caught up in the slow, sultry days and dramas of this tiny town. Yet, tiny as the town may be the, the dramas most assuredly are not! This book is a real page-turner with a lot going on and characters complicated enough to have you guessing the whole time. I was sorry to see it end.

(Ages: Adult)

#12485 - Paperback Book - 358 pgs
Our price $12.95

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