Trudy Krisher

A thousand people is impersonal. But three people will reach in and become personal, bringing out a part of you that you've kept hidden.
These three women gathered and protested with a comprehensive group of women at the nation's capital to call for change in how the many were being disrespected and discarded for multiple reasons. The personal growth they experienced as they learned more about the others on that bus for 37 hours is the heart of this fictionalized incursion into this historic happening. The writing style is as basic as the marchers are complex. I loved it and want to buy a copy for the local library.
I requested and received a free e-book copy from The Social Justice Press via NetGalley. Thank you.… (mais)

Any words I write fall short of Trudy Krisher's outstanding book, Spite Fences.
It is a very compelling story evoking a range of emotions in me. Krisher expertly captures the 1960's Jim Crow south in this coming of age story of a 13 year old white girl. Many relationships are portrayed- familial, neighbors, and inter/intra racial. The role of a camera in its figurative relationship to the story and literal relationship to Maggie is important to the story.
I recommended this book when I recently learned about it. Now that I I've read it I give it a stronger and enthusiastic endorsement. It would make a a good selection for book groups as well as "One book, one community" events.
The role of the fence reminded me of August Wilson's play Fences. I had the opportunity to meet him and he signed my Playbill with these words, "May all your Fences have gates". Maggie found her gate.… (mais)

I received a Mobi.file of this book through a recent giveaway the author had on LibraryThing and the following is my honest opinion.

Faith Common is a young woman who was born before her time, as her behavior in the small New England town of Millbrook, Massachusettes; essentially epitomizes the behavior of many suffragettes who would come on the scene 70 years later and women rights movement which would come decades later. She’s a Helen Reddy type of woman for her day who wanted to be more than a mere subservient housewife being limited to performing domestic like cooking, sewing and raising her family’s children.

Like the women of Reddy’s song, I Am Woman, Faith wanted to be all she could be, and not have her abilities being limited by the society’s norms of her day, including education. Naturally, her sheer outspokenness did not go unnoticed as the many residents of her town did not hold back in speaking their minds regarding her outlandish behavior.

Yet, her frankness and sheer bluntness caused her to become a potent vehicle for possible change in her quaint small town, especially where it concerned hullabaloos regardless the rights of everyone besides the [prominent] male residents, specifically the rights of all slaves and of course women. The vignettes of some of the residents of Faith’s town relates the transformations taking place in her town because of her repeated vocalizations of what she truly believed in.

For giving her readers of poignant, moving historical story that change is possible even though it’s due to a single individual, and that everyone is entitled to be whoever they’d like to be, I’ve given the author, Trudy Krisher, the 5 STARS she’s earned for her endeavor here.… (mais)