Whistling Past the Graveyard

author: Susan Crandall
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2015/12/16
date added: 2015/12/16
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'Whistling Past the Graveyard' by Susan Crandall tells of a young girl's journey to reunite with her mom. I like the feel and the book tells a pretty good story.

Young Starla lives in Mississippi, which is a different place in 1963. She lives with her dad and her strict gramdmother. She dreams of the day she and her dad can reunite with her mother in Nashville. When she gets in trouble around the Fourth of July, she becomes afraid and runs away to find her mother. Along the way, she makes an unlikely friend in a black woman named Eula. Eula has a young white baby boy with her and quite a story to tell. The story unwinds in a segregated South where the two become more like family.

I loved the writing style and how Starla and Eula keep helping each other out. The book felt a little like an updated Huckleberry Finn to me in the nature of some of the adventure and the relationship. I mean that as praise, and I really enjoyed reading this one.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Gallery Books and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.


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