A review by ginger_curmudgeon
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South by Anne Moody

3.0

Moody's work is good, but it is definitely a slow read. The lack of any form of plot is frustrating. She states everything that happened in her life very matter-of-factly. Then again, that's probably appropriate since she describes her family as not being the kind to hug, kiss or express any form of emotion. At times I was left wondering if the some of the grammatical errors belonged to the editor or to Moody. Another point of irritation is Moody's habit of jumping around time-wise. Obviously she can't write about everything and every year of her life, but it felt a couple of times as if she went forward in time, only to go back to where she had been. Overall, it's definitely a good book and it stands as a good study of life in the South. I kept thinking that if I were to actually become a college professor in some far off time and land, and I was forced to teach William Faulkner, I'd want to use texts like this one to compliment the study of his literature.