Manuel Marktl Marktl itibaren North Bay Village, FL, USA itibaren North Bay Village, FL, USA

I can't improve on the first sentence from the book jacket as a plot summary: "Cotton heiress Peggy Nickles offers to give Otha Lee Sturgis, a black country preacher, the deed to an old church cemetery if he will help restore them. Aided by a carpenter named Joseph, who wonders into town, they begin their work - and are quickly opposed by Peggy's domineering sister and a racist community." Sounds like a great story line. Unfortunately, for me anyway, it didn't live up to the promise. The characters were so one-dimensional and (pardon the bad pun here) so all black or all white. It was a fairly interesting quick read, but overall just a little too coyingly sweet.

A really cute book about two new friends learning to deal with each others' differences. Pictures beautiful, would be great for a Friends storytime.