John and Mary Margaret by Susan Cushman has it ALL. For real! Love, life in the deep south, race wars in the 60s, college life. This is such a gem and I promise you’ll fly through this book just as quickly as I did!
Another quick-n-easy book review because…real life over here. 😜
Mary Margaret is expected to go to school, marry a certain kind of young man and follow exactly in her mother’s footsteps. House-making, Junior League, bridge club and so on.
However, Mary Margaret meets author Eudora Welty in town and her world is opened up to the racial injustices around her.
Meanwhile, John lives in Memphis and feels all the racial injustices. He is black in the south in the 60s. He keeps his head down and focuses on his school work. He will take his career as far as he can to make society a better place for black individuals.
John and Mary Margaret meet on the Ole Miss campus and Mary Margaret is a smitten kitten. John is as handsome as he is intelligent and kind.
This just ‘isn’t done’ back in the 60s. Especially at Ole Miss.
Read this book to see where John and Mary Margaret take their relationship and where their paths veer throughout the next few decades.
SUCH an excellent book!
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I have no doubt you’ll read this and pass it along to another reader!