The player gets almost breaking into a universe of children who discover the world: their games, their fears, paris, imagination that is built in the shadow of a great tree: the father. (I would like to see the movie, then this role is held by Gregory Peck) The cheerful tone, tender, funny does not exclude the ferocity of the analysis. This "novel" (as it is a puzzle This was widely discussed, read this very interesting topic afterword?) So this novel, renders the climate of the South: between languor and wetness, boredom, weight of tradition and courage a minority that wants change. Between Faulkner and Forbidden Games, the eyes of an author who puts himself in the shoes of a saucy girl, resourceful and smart. To highlight: a trial, that of an unjustly condemned black. As for the end, the last 30 pages, they not only eat, but they light up the dark side of romance that still discovering better built than is suspected. A book that can be read at almost any age or because it is a universal book as much as a novel of initiation: "Jem and I were growing up, but there was not much we learn, share algebra maybe ".
