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Safe From The Neighbors (2010)

by Steve Yarbrough(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307271706 (ISBN13: 9780307271709)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: Yarbrough's novel depicts the intersection of public and private histories - the things we struggle to forget and can't help but remember from our personal and collective past - in his story of a history teacher who attempts to excavate his own troubled family's involvement in the brutal events of the civil rights era in Mississippi while succumbing to the siren-song of childhood love and nostalgia. An excellent novel.
review 2: I read this in one day, pressured by the deadline od discussing it at the library tomorrow. Due to many twists and turns, it will be helpful that its all fresh in my mind. I was disappointed because I thought the bok wqas going to be about race relations in the South which I am keen to discuss since the movie the HElp that I saw recentl... morey was powerful ad great to discuss. Instead this is a story bout betrayal. what the author does that is interesting is to fill in the details of stories in a skewed way, telling yu the end so that you think you have missed something but forcing you to guess what the missing piece is. The main character whose name escapes me givesa a real food for thought lecture at the beginning of the book, but he doen't, sadly, manage to remain a hero. less

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