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alys 's review for:
Gone Crazy in Alabama
by Rita Williams-Garcia
I love the relationship between the three sisters, it is just so spot on.
The snarking relationship between the older Trotter sisters was a nice echo, but was a little too extreme to be entirely believable to me. The actual specific things they said and did were fine, but the overall sense of never, ever visiting, or having a decades long semi-feud when they were more or less getting along. But perhaps, as someone else pointed out, they were playing it up for the Gaither sisters, or that Delphine's perspective was skewed.
The setting is strong, the characters are strong, the themes of family, forgiveness, and how to be a part of a large extended family are all excellently handled. I'll expect this to be a part of the Newbery speculation later this year.
The snarking relationship between the older Trotter sisters was a nice echo, but was a little too extreme to be entirely believable to me. The actual specific things they said and did were fine, but the overall sense of never, ever visiting, or having a decades long semi-feud when they were more or less getting along. But perhaps, as someone else pointed out, they were playing it up for the Gaither sisters, or that Delphine's perspective was skewed.
The setting is strong, the characters are strong, the themes of family, forgiveness, and how to be a part of a large extended family are all excellently handled. I'll expect this to be a part of the Newbery speculation later this year.