March 3rd, 2013 at 10:26pm |
“Years of Grace” ended up being a tedious read. It is a fairly heavy book and started rather unremarkably. Teenage Jane Ward is the youngest daughter of a middle class family. She falls in love with Andre, a French boy whose family is somewhat bohemian (for the time) – the 1890s, but her parents unsurprisingly […]
Read the rest of Years of Grace by Margaret Ayer Barnes, Pulitzer Winner of 1931
March 3rd, 2013 at 10:24pm |
“Laughing Boy” by Oliver La Farge is another book that gives the reader a glimpse into the life of an ethnic minority – Navajo Indians. This story takes place in 1915. Laughing Boy is a young, traditional Navajo who falls in love with a Navajo girl called Slim Girl. He marries her although she is […]
Read the rest of Laughing Boy by Oliver La Farge, Pulitzer Winner of 1930
March 3rd, 2013 at 8:36pm |
Scarlet Sister Mary is the first Pulitzer winning novel that was not written from a white person’s perspective. Every character in this story is black. White folks are mentioned on occasion in a vague sense but we never meet them. The story unfolds in the South after the Civil War, so people are no longer […]
Read the rest of Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin, Pulitzer Prize Winner of 1929
