Synopsis:
"On the fringes of the Jim Crow era, resources for women living in questionable and sometimes dangerous domestic situations were practically non-existent and many women were desperately compelled to take matters into their own hands.
After years of “playing house” with Frank, Hilda has grown weary of his bullish ways and she wants to be free to live in peace. Telling him to leave face to face would be the fair and proper thing to do, and she’s even broached the subject on occasion only to find that once again, her fragile mind and deep-rooted anxiety stopped her in her tracks. Her mental illness that lay just below the façade of sanity wouldn’t allow her to follow through.
As time passed and Hilda’s frustration grew, her thoughts took a dark and sinister turn. She concocted a fool-proof plan to get rid of Frank once and for all, but she couldn’t carry it out alone. She enlisted the help of her dearest friend, Pearl, and although Pearl struggled with matters of her own as she too, searched for peace I. Her own life, there was no way she could refuse her friend’s desperate request.
During the sixties, as the Black Movement was in full swing with up-risings nation-wide and the historical turmoil of Bloody Sunday swirling madly around in the background of their world, will Hilda and Pearl find the peace they so desperately seek?"
Title: Clothesline Blues
Author: B. Berry
Publisher: B.B.
Reviewed By: Arlena Dean
Rating: Five
Review:
"Clothesline Blues" by B. Berry
My Rationalization:
This is definitely one of those reads that will keep you turning the pages to see what was going to happen next in this salty town. Now, I will say up front that this story speaks upon the 'Civil Rights Movement, the Jim Crow Era, that leads up to Bloody Sunday' that leads up to horrible tensions of the Black struggle that was going on at that time in the 1950s - 1960s. Yes, it is how many people were treated and yes, in our world as even today a lot of this still is going on. I definitely saw this as so very sad. This was quite an intriguing story of how this author was able to interweave this story together. Yes, this story is about 'love and war between black and whites in the South during the Jim Crow Era.' I will say this was a hard read for me but I am glad I was given the opportunity to read this novel even though it was a fictional read I know a lots of it was true in one form or another.
The story brings in two people Hilda and Pearl who just happened to be the best of friends who bonded well together as they trusted each other. It was really something in what these two went through in this story that incorporated 'friendship, love, hate, abusive husbands, secrets, sadness, domestic violence, rape, passion, pain, anger, murder, revenge, sorrow, survival, romance and yes even more.
Now as the story continues there will be a lot of mystery, suspense with some history as the story will take on its form of twist and turns to form its own with some very interesting well-developed characters that will add to this interesting read that was so very 'realistic, and captivating.' To get it all you will have to pick up "Clothesline Blues" to see how it all comes out in the end. Definitely, the title tells a part of the story.
This is definitely one of those reads that will keep you turning the pages to see what was going to happen next in this salty town. Now, I will say up front that this story speaks upon the 'Civil Rights Movement, the Jim Crow Era, that leads up to Bloody Sunday' that leads up to horrible tensions of the Black struggle that was going on at that time in the 1950s - 1960s. Yes, it is how many people were treated and yes, in our world as even today a lot of this still is going on. I definitely saw this as so very sad. This was quite an intriguing story of how this author was able to interweave this story together. Yes, this story is about 'love and war between black and whites in the South during the Jim Crow Era.' I will say this was a hard read for me but I am glad I was given the opportunity to read this novel even though it was a fictional read I know a lots of it was true in one form or another.
The story brings in two people Hilda and Pearl who just happened to be the best of friends who bonded well together as they trusted each other. It was really something in what these two went through in this story that incorporated 'friendship, love, hate, abusive husbands, secrets, sadness, domestic violence, rape, passion, pain, anger, murder, revenge, sorrow, survival, romance and yes even more.
Now as the story continues there will be a lot of mystery, suspense with some history as the story will take on its form of twist and turns to form its own with some very interesting well-developed characters that will add to this interesting read that was so very 'realistic, and captivating.' To get it all you will have to pick up "Clothesline Blues" to see how it all comes out in the end. Definitely, the title tells a part of the story.
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