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FIRST REVIEW IS IN: Jackson Clarion Ledger

by Michael Copperman | Aug 1, 2016 | blog

In the Jackson Clarion Ledger, Joe Wilkins says:

“They’ll follow you, too, these delightful, frustrating, intelligent children. They’ll be with you as you close Copperman’s wise, challenging memoir, as you lean back and consider how in the Mississippi Delta — and all across the country — the unimaginable weight of generational poverty and systemic racism falls on the slim shoulders of children. As you consider and wonder and marvel at the fact that every day public schoolteachers across the country try, and try again, and once again, to lift that weight, so that their students might, with luck and incredible courage, step out from under it.”