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Book Review of Gods in Alabama

Gods in Alabama
Gods in Alabama
Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks... so starts Jackson's work Gods in Alabama. As a parent of a high schooler, whose son's Alabama school is featured in a national TV show starring the football players, I concur! This is a funny and poignant look at a young woman who grew up in Alabama as a not-quite-outsider, with starring and supporting roles in the dramas of her day that eventually caused her to run to the North, to a black chuch, to a vow never to return.

Yet return she does to face her past and, eventually, to understand it.

I enjoyed this one.