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Cane and Able is an easy read, pulling the reader deeper into the story with every page turned. I am well pleased with the results. I hope you buy a copy and enjoy the book as much as I did while writing it. Many places and events are real and are included in the book, some funny and some serious, but for the most part this story is fiction. Events in my book could have happened only in the South. If you are not from the South you will visualize and feel what growing up in Mississippi was like in the 50's.
STEPHEN CHEEK was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, in 1950. He is a registered Landscape Architect.
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Cane and Able, by Southern writer Stephen Cheek captures the era of the late 1950’s in Mississippi. He explores a time when to be black was to be “colored” and to be white was supreme, a time when the color of a person’s skin could mean the difference between life and death, wrongness and fairness, or poverty and wealth. Cheek’s book shares the story of how for one family in rural Mississippi the color of a man’s skin didn’t matter. In his 396-page novel, he depicts the true love and devotion that existed between many white and black families in a time that was particularly difficult. Cheek narrates his story through a farmer’s twelve-year-old son named Justin Cane.
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