http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/cotton-song-tom-bailey Comments for "'Cotton Song' by Tom Bailey" en http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/cotton-song-tom-bailey <p>Reviewed by Andrea Sisco</p> <p>Tom Bailey’s novel "Cotton Song" is set in Hushpuckashaw County, Mississippi. It’s a raw and visceral view of the relationships between blacks and whites in the south during World War II. Readers are invited into the story just after Letitia Johnson, a black nanny, is lynched, tarred and burned for drowning Dorothy, the infant daughter of her employer, Sissy. The accused had raised Sissy from birth.</p> <br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/cotton-song-tom-bailey">read more</a></p> http://www.letsgosouthwest.com/cotton-song-tom-bailey#comments Books and Authors Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:09:19 -0500 Melissa Gilman 1056 at http://www.letsgosouthwest.com