pickI have a lot of love for the McNally Editions series of overlooked books. This is a coming-of-age story of a young girl - Irene - growing up in a still-segregated town in 1950s Kansas. It is told in a series of chapters from various characters point of view, which gives depth to the story (and is one of my favourite narrative devices). Neither cloying nor strident, this book struck the perfect balance. Excellent.
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I really liked getting to know the characters in this book. A few stories, though, seemed to end way too quickly without giving the characters enough time to be fleshed out properly.
I'm looking through the catolog of McNally Editions when I read the description of the tagged:
“Irene Wilson knows that a “no-name invisible something” has settled over her parents‘ marriage and suspects her glamorous new teacher is to blame. Irene is not alone in her suspicions. In the town of Rattlebone, a small Black neighborhood of Kansas City, secrets are hard to keep and growing up is a community affair.“
I googled to see if Clair was a KC
pickPublished in 1994, excellent interrelated short story collection revolving around a young African-American girl coming of age in 1950s in a small African-American neighborhood.
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