The View from Delphi
Book Description
Set in pre-civil rights Mississippi, The View from Delphi follows two young mothers, Hazel and Vida- one wealthy and white, the other poor and black-who find a common cause in an unfair world. This absorbing novel is the story of a town, a people, and a society on the verge of great changes- and how great changes begin with small things, like friendship.
About the Author
Jonathan O...
MoreSet in pre-civil rights Mississippi, The View from Delphi follows two young mothers, Hazel and Vida- one wealthy and white, the other poor and black-who find a common cause in an unfair world. This absorbing novel is the story of a town, a people, and a society on the verge of great changes- and how great changes begin with small things, like friendship.
About the Author
Jonathan Odell was born and raised in Mississippi, growing up in the institutional segregation of a small town. In college he became an activist and sold The Ebony Pictorial History of Black America door to door in black neighborhoods across the South while the Klan tried to discourage him. He spent his business career as a leadership coach to Fortune 500 companies and now resides in Minnesota. The View from Delphi is his first novel.
"With the commonality of their loss and the sense of invisibility within the constraints of a small town, the two women move from loathing to mutual resilience and finally friendship on the eve of social changes seeping into the South."
- Booklist
"Not a single character, black or white, receives short shrift in this remarkable novel. Odell paints a vivid picture on a human scale of what life was like in the South during a period that's rapidly becoming `ancient history.'"
- Rocky Mountain News, "Great Debuts of 2004"
"Odell ultimately proves himself a master craftsman...This lyrical new voice, unflinching in its honesty, no doubt has many more courageous tales to tell about race in America."
- Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"...a fascinating read. It's the best novel about the late segregation era and the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement that I've read in years."
- Creative Loafing
"Odell captures the idiom, the fear, the tenor of the times, in a magnetically readable story."
- Lavender Magazine
"...the plot churns through the hideous, bitterly ironic, and, yes, somehow also beautiful social turmoil of the South in the sixties."
- The Rake
"A story of two strong women who overcome insuperable odds, turn a small Southern town on its head and forge a most unusual and empowering friendship...a fine and readable story."
- Ann LaFarge, "The Constant Reader"
Publisher | M P Publishing |
Binding | Kindle Edition (5 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | N/A |
ISBN-10 | B001S2PINS |
Publication Date | 02/16/2012 |
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