Book details of 'The Sweet Shade of a Chinaberry Tree'

Title	The Sweet Shade of a Chinaberry Tree
Author(s)	Janice Ward Parrish
ISBN	0759948070
Language	English
Published	September 2005
Publisher	Hard Shell Word Factory

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Reviewer Koos van den Hout wrote:
"The Sweet Shade of a Chinaberry Tree" is a book that retells the history of the (forced) integration of the United States of America, focussing on a small town in Alabama and the things happening there. The story follows Gaynell McGowan who comes home for the summer from college, living through the integration forced from federal level and how the local town responds. Her own story takes a very interesting turn when she meets Willis, a negro civil rights activist and falls in love with him. A nice book, but it feels (to me) like only a small part of the story of the integration in the United States of America. It only touches the fears and feelings of the black people where I think a lot more can be written about those feelings. The total story will take more than just one book. The ending is also somewhat weird to me, a bit of 'they all lived happily ever after and divorced only once or twice'.
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