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I don’t know who lent me this book or how it got into my possession. Somehow, it followed me to Germany. I wouldn’t say it was great literature, but it planted itself squarely in a real world and wove some fine images. It has its place.
A very simple story with ordinary characters living in a complex world and time. In Louisiana, in the late 40s, an uneducated black man is convicted of a crime and sentenced to death. His godmother (or grandmother?) enlists a friend’s reluctant nephew, an educated school-teacher, to make regular visits to the jail. The hope is that in a few short months, the schoolteacher can “make a man” out of him before he is executed.
