The Shade Tree definitely earns a full cache of stars, from me! Although this is a work of fiction, the appalling truth of prejudice and racism is clearly demarcated and portrayed as to whom the perpetrators generally are in this unbalanced and biased case of color vs color. This history is real, and this dreadful, horrific behavior continues to raise its ugly head still, in our day and age.
Theresa Shea has aptly engineered her characters to ask probing questions of those who innocently and/or unintentionally have the blinders on and perpetuate the ongoing awfulness of systemic oppression, due to the "Law of Color Supremacy" which foments and spews forth from cover to cover. Small glimmers of hope for better things to come in the lives of the book's characters spark but will they ever be able to overcome the memories imprinted, and the long shadow from the scenes of the Shade Tree?
In my opinion, this is a pointed analogy for "real life" for the thoughtful, pro-active reader. I hope Theresa Shea will write many more such enlightening books and readers will take these catalysts to become color blind, and to help the cause of those who are often the victims of racist oppression, doing so in this lifetime.
~Eunice C., Reviewer/Blogger~
October 2021
Disclaimer: This is my honest opinion based on the review copy sent by the publisher.
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thks for sharing
ReplyDeleteWelcome. It will really stretch the person who reads this book and make they examine their own thoughts along these lines. Thought-provoking.
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