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I enjoyed this book all the way through. It painted a vivid portrait of the young family, first-person narrator Kenny and his brother and sister and their parents. They were wacky, wonderful, loving, happy, sad, frustrating to each other, each doing the best they could individually and together. That would have been enough to make it a good book on its own, but it was also an essential set-up for the last critical chapters. Suffice it to say that in spite of all the hints, even in the title, I still wasn't prepared for the last two chapters. It's amazing how much emotional wallop Curtis was able to deliver without varying from Kenny's same, matter-of-fact descriptive style. If I wanted to introduce young readers to the time of the civil rights movement in the U.S., this would be the "hook" I'd use to get them to care about it before I tried to introduce facts and details about what happened.

2022-10-21 05:23