Book Review #33 - Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

The south has a pretty solid grip on fascinating literature. I've lived in the Rocky Mountain west my entire life and I'm drawn to books about the south and all of its flavors and dysfunction. I should have liked this book. Not much happens. It's much more about stereotypes and prejudices and how, when race is involved, those universal human frailties take an even nastier course.

But, I didn't like it. I kept waiting for something to be learned or gleamed or appreciated or forgiven but it just all...happens. Like I expected it would. Not really a mystery, although the author purposely keeps the reader in the dark about details surrounding a homicide, but I did wonder "whodunit" and when I knew...I figured. I guess my complaint is that there is nothing really new or special about this small little Mississippi town and its inhabitants.