A review by nomnombookies
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

4.0

The narrator, Jane Pittman is one of the most real characters I've come across in my reading. She has a very matter-of-fact way of telling a story, which I thought was just right. She is a woman who has seen a lot in her lifetime and can roll with whatever comes her way. Sometimes she does get sassy, though, and at those times the book is surprisingly funny.
At one point she started telling the story of some minor characters in her life...the son and the schoolteacher on the plantation where she lived. She almost lost me then. I just wanted to know her story. But I kept reading and I'm glad I did, because that story ended up being the best example of the extreme intricacies of race relations in the early 20th century South.