I don't even know what made me read this book, when I first opened it up. Once I started reading it, though, I was drawn in. I think that people normally have an idea of what is going to happen at the end of a book, at some point or another, but I had no clue that the lovers in the book were goin...
DuBois presents a fictionalized account of the 1917 race riot in East St. Louis, as experienced by members of the Goodwin family (quite well-off), their maid, their milkman (white, sweet on the maid) and his family, and members of the poor African American community. In the process DuBois weaves ...