Finalist for the 1991 National Book Award and a New York Times Notable book, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of Georgia–and a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded all the power, controlling everything and everybody. Somehow the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement managed to bypass McIntosh entirely. It took one uneducated, unemployed black ma… More >>
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction
Never belive everything you read unless you lived it. I wish I had a dollar for every different opion of how things were in McIntosh county in the 1970’s. Anyone can write an opion but that is what it is “an opion” nothing more nothing less. People have a lot easier time beliving the bad things about people than than the good. Someone might go to McIntosh county and ask around about the late Sheriff. Opions will vary. Maybe each person who lived in McIntosh county during these “bad times’ should write a book. I live in McIntosh county and although I was very young during this era I have a hard time beliving all the Bull in this book. If you read it wear hip boots because belive it or not as the pages turn the Bull rises.
Rating: 1 / 5
Relatively well written book, but I had to put it down about half-way through. For one thing, the villains seemed way too nice (the author definitely portrayed them that way) and the heroes were somewhat too evil (criminal activity seemed rampant). I did enjoy the fact that the gun ownership of the poor people in McIntosh County was essential to their gaining increased rights. It was clear while reading that an unarmed poor populace has no political rights and no way to gain them.
Rating: 2 / 5
It’s an eye opening book that deserves much more acknowledgment and interesting to read about the courroupt practices that was happening in the main land America…and honestly i think its a muts read!
Rating: 5 / 5
An interesting review of the southern black population, and how their self esteem was, and possibly still is, somewhat depressed because of the discrimination toward them, by people who were victims of their upbringing, not intentionally putting them down.
Rating: 4 / 5
You will enjoy this book, it took a long time for things to get right in southern Georgia, You will find that there is power in numbers,especially if your on the side with the most numbers.
There is also some very funny stories in this book.
Rating: 5 / 5