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Title: In a Temple of Trees: A Novel by Suzanne Hudson ISBN: 1-931561-41-9 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Terrific First Novel
Comment: A well-written, powerful book full of mystery, sexual and racial tension, and redemption. I must confess I'm not certain (and I've read the entire book) why several quotes on the back of the book indicate this book is infused with humor (black or otherwise), it's not. Oh, and it's all but ruined (hence the four stars instead of five) by an inexcusable misspelling of Lynyrd Skynyrd on page 229.
Rating: 5
Summary: WOW!!
Comment: This a great book. Ms. Hudson's writing is very aggressive and very hard to believe it comes from a female. Many of the same tones as A Time to Kill but with a must harder edge. It's not a PG13 book. It's a quick and great read. You will not be disappointed.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard Comedy, Harder Facts
Comment: Suzanne Hudson's recent novel, In a Temple of Trees, is knockout. Just how good a writer is Hudson? She turns a sexual encounter between a white male abductor and his black female abductee into twenty-three of the funniest pages you'll ever read. Brothers and sisters, if that doesn't take writing skill, then my childhood cracker name wasn't Billy Joe.
Those two themes, racism and sexism, predominate the remainder of the novel in a much more serious manner, however. When the Klan appears days after a young black boy named Cecil, witnesses a murder at a white hunting camp, the novel turns as haunted as it was comic. Cecil is sexually debased before the Klan, as is his adopted white Jewish mother. Her reaction? "It was then that she let the fire have her, curling into the bowels of it as if it were some glowing embryonic membrane silencing the world."
Set on the Alabama-Mississippi border, the novel's spine revolves around Cecil's reaction, his enduring memory of the rape-murder at the camp. When he witnessed it, he was an apprentice cook for five white men. The men have brought a young woman from over the state line to "entertain" them for the night. When matters turn nasty, young Cecil, who's been befriended by the woman earlier that day, is at a loss to help her. -Guilt over his lack of any helpful reaction haunts Cecil for thirty-two years. Here the plot thickens, for Cecil's inherited a radio station from his adopted white parents (one a Jew, remember, so an outcast in her own manner). And-this should sound familiar to Alabamians-a statewide voter referendum on charging timber companies realistic taxes is forthcoming. Cecil's radio station reaches several pivotal counties where the black vote could swing matters. So . . .
Hudson is a master of intertwining suspense, tone, and scenes into a plot that will keep you reading throughout the night. And her characters are so real that you might want to sit with a canister of mace to keep some of them at bay.
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Title: Opposable Thumbs by Suzanne Hudson ISBN: 0942979818 Publisher: Livingston Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Hell at the Breech : A Novel by Tom Franklin ISBN: 0688167411 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Right as Rain by BEV MARSHALL ISBN: 0345468414 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: A Secret Word : A Novel by Jennifer Paddock ISBN: 0743247078 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 05 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Stories From the Blue Moon Cafe by Sonny Brewer ISBN: 1931561095 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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