The Learning Tree Author:Gordon Parks Why does our color make such a difference. Didn't God know that we'd have a lot of trouble if he made us black? — The Learning Tree brings us into the inner lives of a Negro family as they struggle to understand and accept--without malice--the bitter challenge of their special owrld..."A stormy and invigorating novel..."-Book-of-the-month-Club Ne... more »ws
"Exciting, timely and frightening." - New Haven Register
"Gordon Parks has made a real world...with characters as lusty, humorous, tragic and impelling as those of FAulkner, Williams or Steinbeck." -Bangor Daily News