By Babs H. Deal
This strong Southern novel happens in Scottsboro, Alabama (the novel’s Bellefonte), among 1923 and 1946 and makes a speciality of the lifetime of Eileen Holder and her classmates from their sophomore 12 months in highschool throughout the carefree days of the Twenties, the devastation of the nice melancholy, and the disruption of global warfare II. The topic of the radical is change—change within the American South and within the lives of the characters. Through a considerate improvement of human relationships, the writer offers a memorable statement at the skill of individuals to outlive in periods of awesome change.
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Vance was standing beside the wooden and wire cages that backed into a rocky ledge on the edge of the back yard. Eileen stood on the porch for a moment, looking at him. She loved him so much that sometimes, coming on the sight of him suddenly like this, she felt surprise that flesh and blood and bone could be so much more than just what it was. She watched him raise his arms above his head to stretch, then lean over and look into one of the cages. She went down the steps and stood beside him. He didn't turn toward her, but he spoke softly.
You know she always looks better than the rest of us," she said. Mrs. Graves shook her head. "Tell her you're here and come have a cup of coffee with me," she said. " Veda went down the hall and out onto the back porch. She knew Catharine would be in the bathroom. As in most of the older, larger houses in Bellefonte the bathroom was built onto the Page 26 end of the back porch. There was still an idea in the minds of most people that the bathroom was not quite clean and the fact that the porcelain fixtures were scrubbed daily with Old Dutch and Bon Ami did nothing to lessen this feeling.
She sat down at the table and took her napkin from its silver ring. Grandfather winked at her. " he said. Her mother was watching her closely. " she said. Veda shook her head, feeling her face grow hot under the rouge. "Young folks are just high-colored," Captain said. Mozel shook her head at him. "You spoil Veda," she said. " Captain laughed and drank from his large coffee mug. "She'll be the prettiest thing in that play tonight," he said. Grandfather Simms had been an old man when he came to live with his son and his family, but he didn't act like an old man, nor talk like one.