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Freddie Owens
ASIN: B00A42VK4O
Publisher: Blind Sight Publications
Pages: 352

"In an American coming-of-age novel, the author presents a stunning story with clarity and historical accuracy..."---Publisher's WeeklyThen like the Blind Man: Orbie's Story is set in the segregated South of the 1950's and is a saga of high adventure and magical realism. Hamlet meets Huckleberry Finn or The Secret Life of Bees meets Bastard Out of Carolina are ways of describing it—a work of visual detail replete with spot on use by author Freddie Owens of the Southern vernacular and a sensitive, natural channeling of a boy narrator.Feisty nine-year-old Orbie Ray hates his stepfather even more than he does mean colored kids with knives—a fact that lands him at Harlan's Crossroads, there to spend a drought summer on his grandparent's dirt farm while his family travels on to Florida's sunny climes. Resentful, fearing for his naively religious mother, Orbie pines for the return of his dead ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 889 ratings