Experience No Daughter Of The South: A Mystery Formulated By Cynthia Webb File PDF

it happens, this is the third book in a row I have read that deals with racism, The first, If Looks Could Kill, deals with a protagonist of Costa Rican heritage that is often looked down on because of the tone of her skin.
The second, Evil Dead Center, shows the widespread discrimination perpetrated on Native Americans, This one, No Daughter of the South, is about KKKsanctioned whiteversusblack racism,

Laurie Coldwater, fulltime secretary and parttime journalist, travels from her home in Manhattan to rural Port Mullet, Floridawhere she grew upto look into the death of her new girlfriends father.
Her girlfriendSammyis black, as was her father, The fact that the death took paceyears previously and that Port Mullet is a typical rural Southern read “racist” town does not bother Laurie at all.
That is, until she actually begins asking questions,

The truth is, I had trouble getting into this book, Although the voice is well done, Laurie Coldwater is simply not a very likeable character, Her situation in New York as a wannabe journalist is interesting enough, but without quite enough backstory, Her relationship with Sammy is not quite convincing enough, And the clichéd characters and situations in Port Mullet Port Mullet were almost enough to make me scream.
Lauries mother is the most typical, longsuffering wife ever, her father is a highly respected football coach, her brothers are beerdrinking real estate agents, the klan is not only active, but its members will not hesitate to rape.
And quotes like “One test of a strong man is how well he manages his womenfolk are sprinkled throughout.
There is a lot for Trump supporters in Port Mullet, too, In referring to the Klan, someone tells Laurie, “Their whole agenda was to look like a legitimate organization for white men who were tired of feeling the system was against them.
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Although I sincerely believe that all clichés are based on historical fact, having too many of themeven if they might all be realis just too much to expect a reader to swallow.
Less is more.

But despite all this, No Daughter of the South tells an important story about the intolerable way that people were and are sometimes treated in the South.
Laurie's investigations not only point her toward the truth of what happened to Sammy's father, but let her know that much that she thought she knew as a girl was wrong.
Webbs style is engaging enough and the middle threequarters of the book is a good read, It and Carole laFavors Evil Dead Center were finalists for the Lambda Award in the same year, Neither deserved the award, but Im going to give this one a slightly higher rating maybe in the neighborhood of,

Note: I read the first New Victoria printing of this novel,

Another Note: This review is included in my book sitelink The Art of the Lesbian Mystery Novel, along with information on overother lesbian mysteries by overauthors.
Laurie Coldwater, a New York journalist, returns to her Florida hometown and the white southern roots she has soundly rejected, Laurie's Black lover Samantha, whose father died a mysterious death there years before, persuades her to look into the

truth surrounding the incident.
Not only must Laurie encounter her family again, but also the exhusband from her wild youth, now the local sheriff,

Undaunted in her search for answers to both her own and Samantha's questions, Laurie tangles with the local KKK and turns the town upside down but how far will she go in implicating her own family in racist events long buried Brash, humorous and chilling.
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