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Gone Crazy in Alabama by Rita Williams-Garcia
4.0
I love the Gaither sisters. This time, they’ve gone down to Alabama for the summer, and spend time with Big Ma, Ma Charles (her mother) and Darnell, who’s cleaned up.
Delphine’s been charged with looking out for her younger sisters, and she takes it very seriously. Vonetta and Delphine snipe almost constantly at each other as they settle in, while Fern confounds her grandmothers with her preferences and opinions. I was at times wincing at the opinions expressed by Big Ma, with her internalized racism and her disgust with feminism, while laughing out loud at the back and forth needling between Big Ma and her half-sister.
There's something about these stories that I love, and it includes the humour, of which there is plenty in the series. And while Rita Williams-Garcia touches upon a number of societal and fairly heavy family issues, they're presented from Delphine's now 13-year old perspective and don't overwhelm. I think what I love the most in these books about the Gaither sisters is the love between the members of this family. Delphine, Vonetta and Fern might all repeatedly get on each others' nerves, but they are a tight and deeply loving group. I kept wondering what these girls would be like in their 20s as I neared the end of this book. Unless Rita Williams-Garcia ever returns to this family, I'll just have to content myself with this and the two previous books about these wonderful girls.
Delphine’s been charged with looking out for her younger sisters, and she takes it very seriously. Vonetta and Delphine snipe almost constantly at each other as they settle in, while Fern confounds her grandmothers with her preferences and opinions. I was at times wincing at the opinions expressed by Big Ma, with her internalized racism and her disgust with feminism, while laughing out loud at the back and forth needling between Big Ma and her half-sister.
There's something about these stories that I love, and it includes the humour, of which there is plenty in the series. And while Rita Williams-Garcia touches upon a number of societal and fairly heavy family issues, they're presented from Delphine's now 13-year old perspective and don't overwhelm. I think what I love the most in these books about the Gaither sisters is the love between the members of this family. Delphine, Vonetta and Fern might all repeatedly get on each others' nerves, but they are a tight and deeply loving group. I kept wondering what these girls would be like in their 20s as I neared the end of this book. Unless Rita Williams-Garcia ever returns to this family, I'll just have to content myself with this and the two previous books about these wonderful girls.