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Title: The Chinaberry Album by Ruth Coe Chambers ISBN: 0-916515-31-1 Publisher: Mercury House Pub. Date: March, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Southern gothic meets Southern comfort
Comment: A disconserting novel and apparently the only one Ruth Coe Chambers ever published.. It begins as sweet as Moon Pies, Coca Cola and salt peanuts, and shifts, just a bit too suddenly, into the kind of rancid, white Southern underbelly -- KKK rallys as comedy, (but 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' has just covered that) -- that is now familiar to many who appreciate the genre. I think Chambers was ahead of her time in some cases. Sympathy for the ignorant red-necked devils is a large part of this novel. The story is seen through the eyes of a (WW-II era) 9-year-old Gulf Coast girl who, in less than a year, discovers she is adopted, has incestious feelings for the uncle who may be her father, is molested by a trusted neighbor...go'wan. And on. There's even an S&M angle, albeit minor. But it plays pretty well once Chambers pumps up from ecstatic sun-blasted lassitude to grim cold-moon attitude. I'd liked to have known more. But like a lotta good books, that's the case. Wish she'd published a sequel.