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Cotton Author: Lee Cotton is a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lee's first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psych-ops corps in Ne... more »
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This book was a fun read to a point, then it made me squirm . The plot twists were very bizarre and by the end of the book, I couldn't figure out what happened.
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Sounds like its up the line of "Puddinhead Wilson". There really is a Eureka, Mississippi (northeast of Jackson).
Many adjectives could describe this novel, not the least of which are: imaginative, funny, twisted, strange. How in the world did a Brit get such a handle on southern mannerisms and vernacular? Be prepared for the fanciful--and be prepared for continual surprises. Might not be for everyone, but I sure enjoyed it!
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