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A carregar... The Pecan Manpor Cassie Dandridge Selleck
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Don’t be fooled by the slender appearance of this novel, it is meaty. It speaks to the time in which it is set, 1976 Mayville, Florida, but it speaks to today just as clearly and it teaches lesson about where we have been and also where we are now. I could not help thinking about all the homeless individuals that crowd our city streets, who are passed by daily and treated like the great unwashed. Beneath each of those faces is a person, an individual, and while some of them might fit the stereotypes we impose upon them, most do not, but if we never look beyond the surface, we will never know that. Selleck’s pecan man is one of those individuals. Ora Lee initially sees only his surface, but as the novel progresses, we are allowed to see beneath it and glimpse the complicated human being who occupies his skin. And, skin is also a theme. The color of skin is a subject that gets discussed often these days, and in literary circles the tales that involve skin color are often so lopsided that you are only hearing one voice or another. Selleck has managed to allow us to hear all the voices. She has created flawed human beings, who make earth-shattering decisions because they must, and sometimes choose the wrong path and sometimes do not know, even twenty-five years later, if the path they chose was the correct one. Because paths, like people, are hard to define. They are made up of so many twists and turns and unseen corners. I loved all the people in this book: Ora Lee, Eldred Mims, Blanche Lowery, Marcus, Judge Harley Odell, Chip Smallwood...I loved them because if you scratch their skin, they bleed, and if you want to pigeonhole them, they defy you. One of the lessons I took away from this book was that we can mean the best, be good and kind people, and still we can hurt someone or hold them back with some subtle behavior that we are cognitively unaware of. What makes Ora Lee a wonderful woman is not that she is perfect, but that she strives to see her flaws and when she does to correct them. Can we ask anything more of one another than that? A compelling story. I read it overnight. Interesting interactions between the races. Written by a white woman who grew up in the south. I was glad to see her catch herself making problematic statements. A bit of the whites as savior to this story. I am more challenged by books like this now that I have done more reading on antiracism. Good characters, very real. The twist caught me by surprise and I had to ponder for a bit. Engaging writer. I loved this little book so much- it has a very powerful story about lies and how they hurt people, even if some lies are told for good. It also explores the meaning of family and how family isn’t always a blood relative. The Pecan Man is a homeless man, and Ora Lee Beckworth hires him to care for her lawn. This decision causes some neighbors to question her sanity-but Ora Lee is kind and wants to help. When Ora’s housekeeper’s, Blanche’s, daughter, Grace is harmed, it sets off a series of events that changes all of their lives. Ora Lee develops an understanding of race relations and how her part in society didn’t always reflect the right way. Still Ora Lee perseveres. This is a short book (136 pages), but it packs a punch! So good! #ThePecanMan #CassieDandridgeSelleck sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML: The Pecan Man is a beautiful work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the first-place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the unpublished novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief's son is found stabbed to death near his camp, the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man. In narrating her story, Ora discovers more about herself than she could ever have imagined. This novel has been described as To Kill a Mockingbird meets The Help. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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