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Chalktown
Chalktown | Melinda Haynes
4 posts | 1 read | 2 to read
In this well-crafted, evocative novel by the author of Mother of Pearl, a poor family struggles to survive in a small 1960s Mississippi town in the face of mind-numbing poverty, an absent father, a disaffected and often cruel mother, mental disability, and tragedy. Reprint.
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Jemmygem
Chalktown | Melinda Haynes
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Really enjoyed the characters and the story was interesting.

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Jemmygem
Chalktown | Melinda Haynes
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So far enjoying the story. But the n word and r word are turning me off.

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readswellwithothers
Chalktown | Melinda Haynes
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What do you do when all indications are that spring is coming and then - BAM! - it's 17 degrees out and the weather dude describes the weekend temperatures as "relentless cold"? OBVIOUSLY, you hop in your time machine and go back to an unusually hot (fictional) February in 1961 in Mississippi and check out a town where the only form of communication is writing on chalkboards hanging from the residents' front doors.

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readswellwithothers
Chalktown | Melinda Haynes
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All this for seven bucks! Oh, the world is a beautiful place. Now I have fresh copies of The Passage and The Sparrow to SHOVE into the hands of people mad enough to ask me what they should read, as well as a never-heard-of-it, a warm-and-fuzzy, a series starter and a second-in-series-I-love, and a bonus that has no reviews yet here on Litsy! I am purring, y'all. ❤

Dolly Okay, so The Passage and The Sparrow are now on my TBR😆 8y
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