The Last Will and Testament of Rosetta Sugars Tramble showcases Myra McLarey's ability to spin one of the richest and liveliest Southern sagas of contemporary times. The intimate narrative voice tells a complex and nuanced story about people for whom the past is as immediate as the present, and history itself becomes as full-blooded a character as Rosetta herself. Readers are in for a captivating journey.
What do you do when the right thing to do is considered the wrong thing by everyone in your safe and secure world? In the summer of 1952, the summer before she turns eleven, Robbie Lee McElroy is faced with this question. Raised in a tiny village in southwest Arkansas, Robbie Lee has a best friend, a brother and sister she loves, and most important, a momma and daddy who make her feel loved and protected. But when she has to take part in caring for her cantankerous dying grandmother, who breaks all of the rules of the community—from being “too familiar” with colored people to being an infidel (or worse, maybe even a Catholic)—Robbie Lee begins a journey of discovery. She begins to see that she is a privileged part of a caste system, a system she has never named —but has always understood as the way things are. And should be. Robbie Lee’s realization of this double world, the ideal world she lives in and the falseness that lies therein, comes to her largely by observing the courage of those she has been raised not to see as courageous. Seeing such courage in action changes her understanding of what (and who) truly matters."--Amazon
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