A review by colorful_language
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt, Charles W. Chesnutt

5.0

I have lived in North Carolina my entire life without knowing anything about the Wilmington (race riots? massacre? coup d'etat?) incidents. I am so utterly shaken by what I have read and by the startling proximity of these issues raised to 2016's America. So much work is left to be done. Is there time enough?

Skip Harriet Beecher Stowe, her narrative is tired and dated and romantic and where this story is not. I want everybody to read this book.