I wasn't so sure that I would enjoy this book as I am worn out by the stories about racial issues and the South. This book is so much more than that, though. It is due to race that many choices are made, but the friendships and family relationships and simply the fact that the author knows how to spin a tale made this an enjoyable read. Highly recommend.

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I absolutely loved this book from the first page to the last. The author has an amazing gift for creating characters that you feel you know and root for. Highly recommended.

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Five stars is not enough to rate this book! This is one of the most powerful books that I have read in a long time. One of my favorite books of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird, and for some reason the entire time I was reading The Pecan Man, To Kill a Mockingbird kept coming into my mind, I think because of the subject matter- discrimination, assumption of guilt because of color and life circumstance, guilt and trying to assuage that guilt, and true love for those around you. I absolutely loved this book!!!

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This is a spellbinding book told by an older white woman, Ora Lee Beckworth, in the 1970s in Mayville, FL. It involves her hired black help, Blanche and her family, and the black Pecan Man, called that because he picks up pecans along the street. The woman telling the story has a wonderful relationship with the black people in her life. The Pecan Man is a homeless man who is accused of something he did not do. The story involves their relationship together.

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If 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and John Grishams' 'A Time to Kill' had a baby, it would be The Pecan Man. Set in Florida in the 1970's, this is a graceful and lyrical story of a Black man wrongly accused of a crime, and the White woman who knows the truth. This is a short tale, but one that will stand the test of time.

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