This week's top book is one I expected to dismiss, but was pleasantly surprised. Kristin Gore's look at racism in a modern Mississippi town in the back of beyond was very well done.
Sweet Jiminy returns to Fayeville for a summer with her grandmother and manages to stir up the long-standing prejudices and suspicions in her choice of boyfriends (a black pre-med student, nephew of her grandmother's "help," Lyn) and summer projects (tracing the evidence to discover who ambushed and murdered her namesake, Lyn's daughter, along with Lyn's husband in 1966).
The little italicized ending blurb (ostensibly written by the original Jiminy) is annoying and unnecessary, but the deeply flawed characters on all sides of the story make the book a worthwhile read.
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