Hemingway Three Angels and Me: 4 (Pompey Hollow Book Club)

"The Jim Crow South is the setting for this compelling coming-of-age story filled with compassion and understanding. 1950s Little Rock is a whole new world to a kid from rural New York. In Jerome Mark Antil’s Hemingway, Three Angels, and Me, themes of racial prejudice, crossing cultural divides, and the lasting effects of World War II are crafted into a compelling coming-of-age story filled with compassion and understanding." (5 STARS) Foreword CLARION Reviews "With the aid of Charlie, two other angels, and a host of other supporters, including Jerry’s war hero uncle and the author Ernest Hemingway, Jerry strives to rescue Anna Kristina and even has a thrilling ride in a B-25 bomber. Antil covers important thematic ground in a narrative in which cooperation and understanding counter segregation, and most of the white characters are as deeply concerned about racism as the characters of color are. As this version of “Papa” Hemingway says, “Racism isn’t about color, Jerry, it’s about…not wanting to know about or care about other cultures.” ...there’s much positive food for thought here, couched in an engaging adventure tale. A complex coming-of-age story that evokes the enduring effects of war and the latter days of the Jim Crow system." ~ Kirkus Reviews