01-07-2012, 06:34 PM
Definitely, "The Choiring of the Trees," by Donald Harington. No, this is not a book having anything remotely to do with the Caribbean, or the sea, or Jamaica. It is just hands-down, by far, the BEST book I've ever read! It is set back in the earlier part of the 20th century in Arkansas. The author is a local man who was brought up in rural Arkansas whose parents moved the family to the Northeast, but he continued to spend his summers w/ his grandparents in rural Arkansas. Extremely compelling story about a man who is wrongly accused of a rape & what all he goes through to try to clear his name. It co-stars a young female newspaper reporter (pretty unusual in that era) who befriends him. I won't say any more....