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Easter Lilly: A Novel of the South Today by Tom Wicker

missyjohnson's review

1.0

What a waste of time. One cliché after another. Poor dumb southerners. no education, unable to do anything for themselves and racists beyond belief. Not just one or two folks but an entire town. The men only think with their little brains and are completely besotted by a beautiful black woman that goes against everything that "should be right" OMG. Then the white savior lawyer from "up North" swoops in to see that justice is done for the poor wrongly accused black woman. Luckily Shep Riley, the attorney, has a degree from Harvard and is so focused on justice that he walked away from all of that money in New York to practice law in the quiet of Vermont. He luckily saw the article in the NYTimes about a murder in the South and knew that he needed to go make things right. There was so much description of how people looked and how attractive the women were or not to the men (who only wanted sex with them) that I wanted to throw the book. The men that wanted the little woman to stay at home and have the dinner ready..............................aaaarrrrgh. Not sure why the parts with Meg are there. not believable. Trying to say that she could help with voir dire was one thing but it seemed illegal the way that they conducted it. seemed like jury tampering to me. The confession by Easter Lilly in the end was not surprising nor did it make much sense for the way the entire disjointed story was told. Again. total waste of good reading time.