A review by debraporowski
The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. Chesnutt

4.0

I picked this up when I heard for some students in my school district this was the first book by a black author they read in school. I found the book a bit disjointed, and I didn’t even really get “into” the story until the second half. But it was an interesting look into the lives and people living in the South at the turn of the century. I learned about the Wilmington Race Riots for the first time. There is so much history that we never learned.