Allie Boy edition by Katherine Park Literature Fiction eBooks
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In 1939, Wess Gamble, an attractive brown skinned young man leaves his home in St. Louis to attend Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He is now seventeen and has had a tumultuous life; losing his mother when he was six months old, being raised by an abusive uncle and aunt and his father being tragically killed when he was five years old. While at school, he does something which will forever remind him that he is capable of a great deal of anger and violence. Finding direction at school eluded him until he discovered the Cadet Pilots Program and prepared to become a Tuskegee Airman but on his solo flight he came dangerously close to crashing his plane due to an illness. He must return to St. Louis for treatment and the course of his life is forever altered.
In 1919, Geneva Stovall slipped away from her Arkansas home in the middle of the night to get away from her mean and often drunk father, Big Jo Stovall. She leaves behind two sisters with the promise to send for them once she gets settled and makes some money. While working as a waitress at a private men’s social club in Chicago, she becomes pregnant after being raped by one of the wealthy patrons. Within an hour after the birth of her son, he is taken by her rapist. Geneva soon learns from the wealthy Miss Kathleen the best way to fight to get her son back.
D.K. McKlane is born in 1921 and lived a charmed life being raised by loving parents behind mansion walls with private tutors, household help and guards. As a teenager, he badly injures his best friend Edmond over something he said. After completing college he decides against going to law school and leaves Chicago for St. Louis where he becomes a police officer and rises rapidly in the department. He has a secret that if found out would change his life and possibly get him killed.
Wess also completes the police academy and is assigned to the same precinct where D.K. is currently working. D.K. treats Wess and the other colored officers with more respect than the other supervisors. The two men learn from each other but Wess knows his place.
Eventually, Wess finds unopened letters sent from Chicago hidden in an old trunk at his uncle’s house. He reads the letters and discovers he has relatives on his mother’s side in Chicago. He responds to the writer, takes time off to meet his relative and gets the shock of his life.
Allie Boy edition by Katherine Park Literature Fiction eBooks
This book started out with great promise, but it seemed to have been written in reverse--all the tension and drama climaxing in the beginning, and then the world's longest and most irrelevant afterward. I did forge on to the very end, because there was so much that COULD have gone on in dealing with an interracial marriage and mixed race child and a wealthy family meeting the Great Depression and the racial tensions in Saint Louis in the 40's & 50s and the elephant in the room that fair skinned DK was quite likely to sire dark children. But with was all sprinkled with fairy dust and whisked away. Additionally, the author was in serious need of an editor; the spelling errors and poorly constructed sentences and multiple occurrences of same facts being repeated two or three times in slightly different ways, as though she wasn't quite sure which sounded best so she just left them all in there, made it read like a first draft instead of a ready-for-public product. Another interesting riddle is the title, as Wes (Allie's boy) was actually fairly irrelevant to the larger story even though his smaller, trivial story did wind through the book. I kept waiting for there to be an actual reason to care about him, because he wasn't a particularly likeable person.All that said, the story was interesting (Kathleen's tale was especially gripping), the characters consistent, and Geneva could be a great role model for overcoming adversity.
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Allie Boy edition by Katherine Park Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Great read.
The author's attention to detail and narrative style completely engages the reader. Although the story takes place in the mid-twentieth century and not that long ago, the scenes remind us of how much has changed. This book should have a sequel.
I got surprise with this book, I only read it because it was free but now I cannot wait for the second part. This book flow well it kept your attention and there was never a boring moment.
Wow!! This was my first time reading anything by this author. I truly enjoyed this book. There were a few typo's but all in all, the story was great. Linda R.
I am enjoying Allie's Boy very much! It is full of diversity and action. I am so excited to read the ending tonight. I reccommend this book to readers with all sorts of interests. I am surprised that this book has become one of my favorites. Don't miss out on this one!!!
This book was decent overall, though the ending was very disappointing. I love the way the family and folks blended, but why end it that way? I was so hoping to find out how Wess felt about learning who his family turned out to be. How did this affect him? How did it effect the relationship. It was a long book and all I can say is that it seemed as Ms. Park got tired and just ended it. Is there to be a sequel? What is to become of the clan. I need answers as I feel unfulfilled.
I very much liked this book. (And it was a freebie) I loved the characters, felt that they had depth to their personalities. And yes, this was a story, but I hope somewhere this story could have patterned real life.
Although the title is about the main character, Wess, to me the story is about his mother's aunt, Geneva and all the people that impact her life. She endured a horrible childhood, escaped it then encountered a tragedy in her adulthood. The book started with Wess' life but I found the story of Geneva much more interesting and how her tragedy was turned into a wonderful life. And how Wess was to become a part of it.
This book started out with great promise, but it seemed to have been written in reverse--all the tension and drama climaxing in the beginning, and then the world's longest and most irrelevant afterward. I did forge on to the very end, because there was so much that COULD have gone on in dealing with an interracial marriage and mixed race child and a wealthy family meeting the Great Depression and the racial tensions in Saint Louis in the 40's & 50s and the elephant in the room that fair skinned DK was quite likely to sire dark children. But with was all sprinkled with fairy dust and whisked away. Additionally, the author was in serious need of an editor; the spelling errors and poorly constructed sentences and multiple occurrences of same facts being repeated two or three times in slightly different ways, as though she wasn't quite sure which sounded best so she just left them all in there, made it read like a first draft instead of a ready-for-public product. Another interesting riddle is the title, as Wes (Allie's boy) was actually fairly irrelevant to the larger story even though his smaller, trivial story did wind through the book. I kept waiting for there to be an actual reason to care about him, because he wasn't a particularly likeable person.
All that said, the story was interesting (Kathleen's tale was especially gripping), the characters consistent, and Geneva could be a great role model for overcoming adversity.
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