#214 To Hell With Dying- Alice Walker
This is the final story in this great collection- In Love
& Trouble: Stories of Black Woman. Reading these slowly, space-out over the
course of several months, I appreciated the subtle beauty of her prose in a way I
wouldn’t have if I consumed them all at once.
“Mr. Sweet was a diabetic and an alcoholic and a guitar
player and loved down the road from us on a neglected cotton farm.”
He liked to play with the children from the area and they
loved to play with Mr. Sweet. “Toward all us children he was very kind, and had
the grace to be shy with us, which is unusual in grown-ups…his ability to be
drunk and sober at the same time made him an ideal playmate, for he was as weak
as we were and we could usually best him in wrestling.”
Such a sweet and touching love story, a perfect way to end
this collection.
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