The Southern Cross Alabama Jane Brown Books
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Summer of 1963. Mounting civil rights tension and George Wallace’s infamous stand in the schoolhouse door form the backdrop as four generations of women try to make sense of the social upheaval, and the struggles within their own family. The Southern Cross is a microcosm of the South, confronting social conventions and unveiling startling secrets of personal and national significance which form a rite of passage for Junie, the youngest in a long line of family matriarchs. Amid conflict and turmoil, both within the family and across the South, Junie finds stability in the heavens, as the light from the Southern Cross constellation reflects upon the light in her own life. A novel to shout about, share and cherish for generations!
The Southern Cross Alabama Jane Brown Books
Abraham Lincoln is said to have told Harriet Beecher Stowe that her monumental bestseller, Uncle Tom's Cabin, "started this great war." Maybe Lincoln said those very words, and perhaps Stowe's achievement really did ignite the Civil War, but here's the thing: If one book marked the beginning of the end of American slavery, perhaps Ms. Brown's novel, The Southern Cross, might mark the beginning of the end of America's endless and often-violent obsession with race and racism.In her slim volume, Ms. Brown reveals a daring and startling "secret," which, as she acknowledges in her epilogue, endures as an "Alabama urban legend." (It'd be just plain wrong to divulge the secret here, as it essentially spins the entire plot.) Her story personalizes that secret - a secret that involves two towering figures in the civil rights movement -- with the anguished lives and tangled family trees of four generations of Alabama women. (Note: The publisher here, Editio Press, is responsible for the loss of a star in this review.)
The Southern Cross, weighing in at a brisk 197 pages, reads like a mash-up of thriller, political history and Southern gothic-noir. The book arrived in the mail on Saturday. At noon on Sunday, I sat down with it and finished reading it only a few hours later. While Ms. Brown makes the Big Reveal just halfway through her story, she winds up and pitches another secret at the end, one that's not terribly surprising given the poignant absurdities and hypocritical tragedies of the race-riven South, pre-Civil War and antebellum.
While she writes that she timed her book's publication with the 50th anniversary of Alabama Gov. George Wallace's segregationist "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door," her story nevertheless arrives at something of a crossroads in American racial history. Years after South Carolina's Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond revealed his own "secret," and only a few years after the nation elected, then re-elected, its first half-black, half-white president, who's also among its most polarizing, the country's ongoing civil rights movement, such as it is, is now left shaking its collective head (and, perhaps, fists, too) at the media travesty and moral disaster of the George Zimmerman trial. While Ms. Brown doesn't go anywhere near litigating Trayvon Martin's shooting death at Zimmerman's acquitted hands, she does, however, reveal secrets that, one would think, could (should?) move our collective consideration of race forward -- perhaps in some way similar to Stowe's novel, though hopefully without the conflagration that Lincoln reputedly said Uncle Tom's Cabin provoked!
In a word, Ms. Brown asks: If we're all more or less related, why are we killing each other, burning crosses and spouting hate? After reading Ms. Brown's The Southern Cross, you can't help but look up at the heavens, at that mysterious constellation, and continue to wonder.
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The Southern Cross Alabama Jane Brown Books Reviews
One review from Ms. Browns last novel, Sinner From The South said finally a writer. This novel, The Southern Cross was enchanting, and informative regarding the civil rights movement in Alabama in the 60's. A wonderful book. I will continue to look for more to come from Ms. brown. The Secret revealed in this book left me speechless!
this was a great book! it was short but very good and interesting. enjoyed the urban myths parts of the book!
As usual, Alabama writes with a strong voice. This is a charming tale of family dynamics in 1960s Alabama. I enjoyed it.
Thank you Ms. Brown for a fine work and interpretation of a place in time. Cheers and best of luck.
The Southern Cross is a definite "must-read" for all. Wonderfully written account of possible truths hidden within the legends and rumors surrounding two prominent Southern families. Thank you, AJB, for sharing your talent for "painting" a story.
The influence of Southern women is often found in their strength to support and survive.
I'm glad I came back to it. At first, I was so confused by all the family relationships (and I couldn't read the family tree on my phone, or get my app to bookmark it and come back to it, without losing my place). Plus, I love the night sky, so I was skeptical, because I've never heard of anyone actually being able to see the Southern Cross from Alabama (but my frame of reference is Birmingham and north). So I let my left brain have the day and gave up on the book for a couple of months.
But when I came back to it, I left my right brain rule, and fell in love with the characters, setting and story - and not just the "big reveals" the others have mentioned, although those were quite interesting. Overall, I dropped the review to four stars because I think the editor should have helped her clarify a few things earlier in the book - and to help her drop a couple of hints beforehand that some major events were about to happen (one of the events the night of the party was hugely significant but just landed on the page without any warning).
Highly recommended, but be patient at the beginning or if you're a stickler for minor details.
Abraham Lincoln is said to have told Harriet Beecher Stowe that her monumental bestseller, Uncle Tom's Cabin, "started this great war." Maybe Lincoln said those very words, and perhaps Stowe's achievement really did ignite the Civil War, but here's the thing If one book marked the beginning of the end of American slavery, perhaps Ms. Brown's novel, The Southern Cross, might mark the beginning of the end of America's endless and often-violent obsession with race and racism.
In her slim volume, Ms. Brown reveals a daring and startling "secret," which, as she acknowledges in her epilogue, endures as an "Alabama urban legend." (It'd be just plain wrong to divulge the secret here, as it essentially spins the entire plot.) Her story personalizes that secret - a secret that involves two towering figures in the civil rights movement -- with the anguished lives and tangled family trees of four generations of Alabama women. (Note The publisher here, Editio Press, is responsible for the loss of a star in this review.)
The Southern Cross, weighing in at a brisk 197 pages, reads like a mash-up of thriller, political history and Southern gothic-noir. The book arrived in the mail on Saturday. At noon on Sunday, I sat down with it and finished reading it only a few hours later. While Ms. Brown makes the Big Reveal just halfway through her story, she winds up and pitches another secret at the end, one that's not terribly surprising given the poignant absurdities and hypocritical tragedies of the race-riven South, pre-Civil War and antebellum.
While she writes that she timed her book's publication with the 50th anniversary of Alabama Gov. George Wallace's segregationist "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door," her story nevertheless arrives at something of a crossroads in American racial history. Years after South Carolina's Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond revealed his own "secret," and only a few years after the nation elected, then re-elected, its first half-black, half-white president, who's also among its most polarizing, the country's ongoing civil rights movement, such as it is, is now left shaking its collective head (and, perhaps, fists, too) at the media travesty and moral disaster of the George Zimmerman trial. While Ms. Brown doesn't go anywhere near litigating Trayvon Martin's shooting death at Zimmerman's acquitted hands, she does, however, reveal secrets that, one would think, could (should?) move our collective consideration of race forward -- perhaps in some way similar to Stowe's novel, though hopefully without the conflagration that Lincoln reputedly said Uncle Tom's Cabin provoked!
In a word, Ms. Brown asks If we're all more or less related, why are we killing each other, burning crosses and spouting hate? After reading Ms. Brown's The Southern Cross, you can't help but look up at the heavens, at that mysterious constellation, and continue to wonder.
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