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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Margaret Walker
Genre : Historical Fiction
Beautifully written, this is the classic—and true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a Southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O’Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South’s prewar opulence and its brutality, to its wartime ruin and the subsequent promise of Reconstruction. It is a story that Margaret Walker heard as a child from her grandmother, the real Vyry’s daughter. The author spent thirty years researching the novel so that the world might know the intelligent, strong, and brave black woman called Vyry.
“Innis Brown knew that Very was touched with a spiritual fire and permeated with a spiritual wholeness that had been forged in a crucible of suffering. She was, in that night, a spark of light that was neither of the earth nor September air, but eternal fire. Yet it was not that she stood there in pride for them to worship her or be in awe of her deep integrity. She was only a living sign and mark of all the best that any human being could hope to become.”
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