Your blues ain't like mine

Bebe Moore Campbell First published 1992

About this book

A fictionalization of the 1955 Emmett Till murder, in which a teenage boy from Chicago was lynched in Mississippi after speaking French in the presence of a young white girl. "Intriguing ... A thoughtful, intelligent work ... The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush ... She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social upheaval of he civil rights movement ... Campbell has a strong creative voice."

Subjects

  • african americans
  • african americans, fiction
  • american fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction, historical
  • fiction, historical, general
  • large type books
  • mississippi, fiction
  • race relations