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Book Review: Book of Marie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very good book about a high school reunion in GA. Terry Kay gives wonderful word pictures all through this book. His discriptions are so good.It is a great 'read'.Book Review: Book of Marie
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read all of Terry Kay's books and this is one of the best. To bad he is not known as much. His stories are about people you woud like to know. Frank BurtonBook Review: Excellent Buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I have enjoyed reading this book. I am so glad that I was not born in Overton, Georgia back in the ninteen-fifties because I would have been shot dead long time ago. This book tells a lot of secrets of the segregation of the public schools, libraries, water fountains, and much more in the slave days. But one person at a young age change all of that and the little town of Overton, Ga. and all the people in without a clue..... Read the book to find out what really happened....Book Review: Regret or Redemption or Both?
Summary: 5 Stars
Terry Kay has masterfully captured the "what ifs" and "whys" of real life, the excruciating way old love continues to haunt, taunt and touch. This book, which deftly switches between the first and third person to take us from the narrative to the innermost thoughts of our protagonist, finds a way to make us feel good about what we lost. When all is said and done, is it possible that regret and redemption are inextricably linked? In a life lived, yes they are. And we are somehow comforted by that.Book Review: The Book About Marie is as much about individual bonds and knowing a place as home as it is about turbulent history
Summary: 5 Stars
Written by Georgia Writers Hall of Fame author Terry Kay, The Book of Marie is a novel centered upon the fiftieth reunion of the Overton High School class of 1955. Protagonist Cole Bishop remained friends with high school classmate Marie Fitzpatrick well after graduation, yet has been struck by her surprisingly accurate predictions. Each of them witnessed America itself changing, sometimes violently; in 1962, a young black girl was killed at a civil rights demonstration, and the next day a Georgia home was burned. These and many more events reveal the at time painful tribulations a nation went through, as changes were made in the lives of whites and blacks alike. The Book About Marie is as much about individual bonds and knowing a place as home as it is about the turbulent spectrum of history, and evokes emotion, connection, heartbreak and hope. Highly recommended.
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