The Well and The Mine by Gin Phillips
By Phyllis Rhodes • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Book of the Week •
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APOOO member, Phyllis R., had this to say about The Well and The Mine by Gin Phillips.
My book-of-the-week was The Well and The Mine and I thoroughly enjoyed it — I was transported back to Depression-era Alabama, loved the characters (both black and while), and faced their problems (social, economics (‘the FDR New Deal helped a lot), their plagues (typhoid), etc); their voices were authentic. Set in coal-country — the labor was hard, long, dangerous, back-breaking, and the author did an excellent job of relaying the different ways of living, wages, etc between blacks and whites.
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Phyllis Rhodes is a systems engineer with a major defense contractor and adjunct professor at two local universities in Orlando, Florida. A lifelong bibliophile, she founded the Nubian Circle Book Club in 2001 and is a freelance book reviewer for the Orlando Sentinel, APOOO Exchange Team, and Amazon.com. As a consummate fan of the arts, she supports local and national theatre, literary events, and Afrocentric festivals, exhibits, and historical tributes. When not traveling, teaching, or reading, she researches her family history and applies her talents across a host of professional organizations chartered to sustain and uplift the African American community
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