Even though I became impatient with his everlasting refusal to just TELL Honoree what was happening and what had happened to him and his family, he still is my favorite character in WILD WOMEN AND THE BLUES.
The other main characters are hard to connect with: Sawyer with his (magic realism?)
ghost of a sister and the film taking the whole book to decipher, Honoree being either too hard or too intrusive and Bessie being so submissive and clinging.
Bessie's Honoree disclosure was a major unexpected revelation - just wish it had not taken so many pages to get to - book would have been better reading if the original Honoree's parts had been shortened.
Book features lots of fine Chicago memories like the "El" ride.
I just finished reading Attica Locke's BLUEBIRD BLUEBIRD and so am looking forward
to Denny Bryce and BLACKBIRDS. From this excerpt, I disagree with her main character pronouncing a "black militant" not to be just what a "five year old negro child...needs for a teacher." At that time, Fred Hampton, no?
The other main characters are hard to connect with: Sawyer with his (magic realism?)
ghost of a sister and the film taking the whole book to decipher, Honoree being either too hard or too intrusive and Bessie being so submissive and clinging.
Bessie's Honoree disclosure was a major unexpected revelation - just wish it had not taken so many pages to get to - book would have been better reading if the original Honoree's parts had been shortened.
Book features lots of fine Chicago memories like the "El" ride.
I just finished reading Attica Locke's BLUEBIRD BLUEBIRD and so am looking forward
to Denny Bryce and BLACKBIRDS. From this excerpt, I disagree with her main character pronouncing a "black militant" not to be just what a "five year old negro child...needs for a teacher." At that time, Fred Hampton, no?