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Review title: Black folk's culture from a white woman's pen...
Product review: The story is about black and white folks in their respective communities (and sometimes with eachother) in post civil war Arkansas. Initially I had a hard time keeping the various characters apart, and I had to make myself continue reading at times. The big event that connects everything and everyone is a tornado that kills some and whisps away others. The most intriguing character, perhaps, is the red-headed preacher's wife who is found dangling in a tree by her famous over-metaphorized hair. The black speech is at times interesting, although it feels somewhat artificial and too "constructed".Overall, it has the all-too-common feel of a white woman's rendition of black folk's culture and a very PC and feminine one at that (somewhat similar to the much more popular "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd). It amounts to subcutaneous chick lit - pleasant at times, but ultimately forgettable.
