Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Mississippi Whisper

http://widopublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/MississippiWhisper_CVR_MED.jpgIdgie Says:
This book is a Childhood Memoir type novel. It's filled with nice homespun stories of times past in the South, but I did find them to be rather rambling sorts of memories in places, jumping from story to story within chapters, rather than following a nice cohesive, yet segregated flow.

The stories are bittersweet - filled with memories, loves, losses and growing up.  They do represent the old South in vibrant descriptions and phrasing, making it easy to step back in time in your mind and remember your Southern youth.  

Sweet stories, easy to  relate to and often could bring your own memories bubbling up.

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Genre: Literary Fiction
Paperback
Wido Publishinging
December 2, 2014
Page count: 338
ISBN: 978-1-937178-58-1

Book Description:
Ten-year-old Charlie McCoy and his friends are curious about the fire up at the abandoned house on the outskirts of town. Since the grown-ups aren’t saying much, and anything really interesting spoken in shushed tones, the boys may need to do a little digging on their own.

Meanwhile, they avoid the specter of school looming in their immediate futures with playing ball, fishing, and discussing which business to start: junk collecting or selling rabbit tobacco.

Even more than the mysterious fire, Charlie is intrigued by Jackie Robinson, the first black baseball player in the major leagues. And by the new magazine his older brother keeps talking about, and what their mother would tell that Hugh Hefner if she weren’t such a lady.

While Charlie’s hometown of Jackson is slowly changing around him, with Eisenhower’s highway coming through to transform the face of the land, Charlie and his people hold on tight to their agrarian roots.

And at the end of the day, his older sister Katy Jean is always there with a smile to listen to his ideas and opinions, even if she doesn’t say a lot and mostly speaks in whispers.