Robert M. (shotokanchef) reviewed Mamba's Daughters: A Novel of Charleston (Southern Classics Series) on + 813 more book reviews
It isn't âPorgyââhe is a one sentence character in this oneâbut it is the old South beyond the plantations. Set in Charleston, SC, from the post-reconstruction period to the 1920s, it presents the conundrum of the emancipated negro and the poor white ex-aristocracy it is a contrast of city to rural life, with all of its skewed sense of right and wrong, corruption of the justice system. If you haven't read Heywardâa quite forgotten authorâyou owe it to yourself to read this as well as his more well-known novel âPorgy,â that was the basis for Gershwin's operetta âPorgy and Bess.â
