The Summer We Got Saved
by Pat Cunningham Devoto
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Author: Pat Cunningham DevotoEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-10
ISBN: 044669715X
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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- ISBN13: 9780446697156
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of The Summer We Got Saved
Book Review: A rich look at a difficult decade, from three perspectives
Summary: 4 Stars
Having read Devoto's first two books - also featuring many of the same characters - I was eager to read this continuation of their lives, throughout the racial unrest of the early 1960s down south.
Howevever, while each individual story was intriguing -- teenage sisters Tina and Tab reluctantly tag along with their free-spirited Aunt Eugenia to Highlander Folk School, an integrated racial relations training ground which ends up changing their lives; their childhood friend Maudie, miles away and working as a voting registration teacher for blacks, trying to establish herself as an independent young woman after surviving polio; and Charles, Tina and Tab's father, back home on the farm, giving his insight on what it's like to maintain Southern traditions after countless generations -- they were rather disjointed in book format. It was rather difficult to read a segment about each person's experiences, then abruptly jump to another person's (very different) experiences, all the while wondering when (or even if) they'd ever come together in any way. Perhaps Devoto could have written three separate novels; she certainly had enough material, and different characters.
Nonetheless, despite any awkwardness in transition, the characters are wonderfully complex and intriguing, providing Devoto with a rich means of illustrating the very real turmoil of racial strife during the early '60s.
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