Jill Fletcher Pelaez (1924–2012)

I have only read the sample that Amazon provides.

I enjoyed this sample. An interesting, character-driven, historical fiction piece. While I question whether or not white families of that era would have been as willing to acknowledge their relations that were products of an owner/slave rape (sorry, I cannot call that a relationship), it is a fictional piece and the relationship that Tench has with the family who had owned him is something I would be willing to let stand how the author presented it.

It wouldn't be something I would sit down and read at once- the over-reliance on dialect within the story was starting to wear thin at the sample's end (beginning of the eighth chapter- chapters were short). I give this sample 3 stars and will put it on my possible purchase list.… (plus d'informations)