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Review title: Step back to 1959 in rural Virginia
Product review: I picked this book from the library's new fiction shelf on a whim, and was very pleasantly surprised. McFarland does an excellent job of bringing the reader into the story - I felt like I had stepped back to 1959 and was experiencing the racial tensions of that time.The characterization is strong, although I finished the book wanting to understand more about the father and the grandfather and all the dynamics in this troubled family. In fact, a sequel with these characters would be a treat - McFarland has by no means plumbed their depths.I had never heard of the shameful school system closings that went on in the early '60s, as described here. The author's afterward explaining that those events and the instigators he used in the book were actual people added punch to an already powerful story.
