Dec 23, 2009
James “Sandy” Rodgers, the novel’s protagonist, who comes of age in small-town, racially divided Stanton, Kansas, in the years prior to and including World War I. A sensitive, reflective, and intelligent black boy, Sandy is a young child when the novel opens; at the novel’s close, he is sixteen years old and determined to continue his education despite the onset of the war and the economic hardships his family suffers. Sandy is the perceptive observer of black life across race, caste, and class barriers in Stanton and Chicago. He is at first the...
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