This was my "bathroom" book. (maybe TMI but deal with it) I would read a few pages everytime I went in there so it took me awhile to get through but not because of the material. Such funny stories from a southern woman who thinks that everyone should follow the same Southern ideals as her and her friends-whom she all calls "Tammy". Hilarious read and great for quick laughs.
I was introduced to Clyde Edgerton's writings in high school. My parents had some of his books so I picked them up. In college, I wrote a paper in my freshman English class on one. I've always really enjoyed his style of writing and how he recreates the setting and time period so you feel like you're there even if you've never experienced it yourself. He does that again in this new book. It's set in the early 60's in small-town, North Carolina (insert any small town from that era) where race has become a huge issue. Never having lived during this era much less in a small town like that you would think that I had a difficult time relating but he makes all the characters much more than "a character in a book". You actually feel like you know them, even in such a small number of pages. The only thing that I didn't connect with was the characters passion for musice. What connects Larry Lime with the white kid he works with is them feeling music when they make it not just playing it for entertainment. I'm not, nor have I ever been, musically inclined so that plot line was something that I glossed over but understood is the thing that drew these boys from, literally, opposite sides of the tracks to each other. Overall, I thought this was great southern literature and really captured the sentiment of people from this time period.
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