![]() Monroe paints sympathetic portraits of Judge Lawson, the honorable white man Muh'Dear works for Mr. Monroe's characters are well drawn, full-bodied and not all bad. ![]() She suffers the attacks for years until Rhoda befriends her and decides the man must be stopped. Annette, who considers herself fat and ugly, endures silently, thinking no one will believe her. Annette is only seven when she asks their boarder, Mr. After Annette's father left her mother (Muh'Dear) for a white woman, Muh'Dear has scraped by as a domestic, stealing leftover food from her employers' kitchens Annette overeats to compensate for her father's abandonment. ![]() Up until 1963, when 13-year-old, overweight Annette Goode meets beautiful Rhoda Nelson, only daughter of the Richland, Ohio, town undertaker, Annette's life has been a nightmare. Annette Goode, born in the racist South of the 1950s, is the heroine of Monroe's strong second novel (after The Upper Room), a coming-of-age journey depicted with wit, poignancy and bite. ![]()
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