Plowin' Newground.Plowin' Newground Jerry W. Brown Dry Bayou Press 161 Linda Marie Lane, Panama City Panama City, city (1990 pop. 34,378), seat of Bay co., NW Fla., on St. Andrews Bay; inc. 1909. A Gulf Coast resort with amusement parks and excellent fishing, it is also a port of entry. The city's industries produce paper, clothing, and chemicals. Beach, FL 32407 0970557523 $21.95 1-580-230-5905 drybayoupress@aol.com Set in rural 1950s Louisiana, Jerry Brown's debut novel Plowin' Newground chronicles the life of George "Jickie" Jennings, a civilian physicist with NORAD NORAD abbr. North American Aerospace (formerly Air) Defense Command who returns to his family roots to nurse his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. ailing father with whom he has not spoken for the past seventeen years. This is a striking saga of racial, familial, and personal relationships in the South during a time when things were on the cusp of change including a drive civil rights with the inevitable backlash by the Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan (k  ' klŭks klăn), designation mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used . Plowin' Newground tells how two families and a love affair are destroyed by racial hatred. But in the end, this is a story of reconciliation, change, and renewal. A deftly deft adj. deft·er, deft·est Quick and skillful; adroit. See Synonyms at dexterous. [Middle English, gentle, humble, variant of dafte, foolish; see daft. written and historically backgrounded novel that will remain with the reader long after it is finished, Plowin' Newground is confidently recommended for public library collections. |
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