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Title: All too familiar historical storyline.
Review: Gaines did a wonderful job in telling this story. He made the characters very real, average, every day type of people. The type of characters anyone could follow and want to know more about. However this story has been told too many times before for a reader not to know the outcome. Particularly, a black reader. Enjoyable reading but for my point of view I am ready to read a story about a white man, committing the same crime, in the 1940's or today, with an all white jury and the same outcome. This story makes you ask yourself, does such a story exist? or will I ever read such a story?
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