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Gin Phillips won a Barnes & Noble "Discover New Writers" award of some sort for it, so I'm not the only one who loved it. Gin also went to Birmingham-Southern College with one of my three friends named Alice, and Alice was kind enough to send me the book in the hopes that I would agree with her about its awesomeness. Alice has fantastic taste, so I wasn't worried. Anyway, the book is set in rural Alabama in the 1930's and it opens with 9-year-old Tess witnessing someone dumping what appears to be a baby into the family's well. Although the book is about that incident, it also explores each member of the family's character; the life of a coal miner (Tess's dad) and his family during the Depression; racism; poverty; and so much more. It's been a while since I've been introduced to someone I would consider a Great Southern Writer, but it's certainly looking like Gin Phillips could fit that bill.

2022-11-14 14:00