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Hello library colleagues

 

This is my first Zoho writer document.  I intend to use it to give a short book review for a book I have recently finished, called "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" by Mildred D. Taylor, and which I am pleased to see is still in our library system despite being published in 1976.  It is the middle book in a trilogy but can be read as a stand-alone.  It tells the story of an African-American family in the Deep South in America in the 1930s and the racism and consequent difficulties they encounter in their everyday lives, told from the point of view of Cassie, a girl of about 10.  It is a good reminder of how far attitudes in US society have changed in less than a century, particularly now they have their first black president in Barack Obama.  It also reminds us why there are still people alive in the US who said they could never bring themselves to vote for a black man.