Literature -- 5 stars
In 1930 rural Georgia, two girls--one white, one black--are growing up motherless in a sharecropper's cabin. When the white girl gives birth to twins--one white, one black--the girl's daddy decides a price must be paid, and that price makes the girls, the sharecropper, and the town complicit in an act of horror. This is a story of innocence vs. evil. It's one of those stories where you want to cover your eyes. Told in overlapping sections and in different voices, the truth comes out in dribs and drabs--but is knowing the truth better or worse? A fully immersive world that, while depressing in its realism, manages to leave you with a feeling of hope at the end.
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