Description: Peterkin's novel taps into the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture the conflicting realities in an African American community and to reveal a grace and courage worthy of black pride.
Brief description: JULIA PETERKIN (1880-1961) was the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and, with photographer Doris Ulmann, a nonfiction collection of essays entitled Roll, Jordan, Roll. She was the first South Carolinian to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Review Quotes:
Peterkin is a southern white woman, but she has the eye and the ear to see beauty and know truth.
--W. E. B. Du Bois