Long Awaited

Well any book from Jewell Parker Rhodes is long awaited!  So it was no surprise that I bought Black Brother, Black Brother on the day it was released!   An excellent story.   Once again Rhodes takes a serious issue and isn't preachy.  She creates REAL characters and man...her characters are just so...I don't know...REAL.  Rhodes is one of my most favorite authors and is really creating classics here.  Classics that will be read years and years from now and hopefully, kids will read them and think, "Was it really that bad?" and not "Well, not much has changed."