Sand in My Shoes

by Katharine Ball Ripley

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878086405
• ISBN13: 9781878086402
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Down Home Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Overall, a good [nonfiction] story

The reader will be put off by the racial prejudices that show up through the story, but get past this and concentrate on the rest of the story. Right off the bat let us say that these are not mere racial stereotypes, but actual prejudice that obviously was part of the "social understanding" at that time and place (North Carolina). But suspend that for the duration of the reading. Once at this point, this book will be surprisingly easy to read, and hard to put down. This reviewer can say with certainly that "Sand in My Shoes" would not have been a book of choice to either buy or check out from the library, and would not have been read had it not been for a friend lending it for a short while. Since the big part of the story centers on a peach farm inherited by a young post WWI couple, the fragrance of peaches works its way through every page. The author really does it that well. In reading this, you will be struck by how ordinary it feels to live in that time, out in the peach and cotton sticks. This is a naturalist style without the grotesqueness often found in that type literature and art. Oh, yes. The ending is a decently good one, so really bad things do not happen to this couple through their life on that North Carolina peach farm. The farm doesn't wind up so well, but that worked out too.