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The Pecan Man is a beautiful work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the first-place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the unpublished novel category.

In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can Man; their mothers call them inside whenever he appears. When the police chief's son is found stabbed to death near his camp, the man Ora knows as Eddie is arrested and charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, Ora sets out to tell the truth about the Pecan Man. In narrating her story, Ora discovers more about herself than she could ever have imagined. This novel has been described as To Kill a Mockingbird meets The Help.

©2012 Cassie Dandridge Selleck (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Fiction Social justice
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I really enjoyed the book! sad of course, but a capturing story with interesting characters and storyline. I do recommend.

a good capturing story

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I was immersed in the characters from the start, the story was heartbreaking, hopeful, poignant and excellently narrated. I would recommend highly.

Enthralling and thought provoking

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With compassion in her heart we hear the touching and warm story of a woman and an unusual group of people who learn the meaning of the Word family.

Oh the lies we weave.

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The narrator was fantastic. Found the main character somewhat patronising, this was acknowledged by the character herself, her patronage and questionable motivations . Especially her final acts of financial aid to a family who no longer required it, having built up successful careers of their own. Still grated on me somehow. Hard to write authentically in the context of this era I would imagine, the author suceeds at this but then appears to exonerate her main character's flaws by making her admit to an awareness of them. It feels like using retrospective awareness inauthentically.

Good story although formulaic of To kill a Mockingbird type themes.

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