![]() ![]() ![]() Knowing from the beginning that tragedy lies just around the corner doesn't soften the sharp impact of this wrenching book. ![]() Even as Woodson's lyrical prose draws the audience into the tenderness of young love, her perceptive comments about race and racism will strike a chord with black readers and open the eyes of white readers (""Thing about white people,"" Jeremiah's father tells him, ""they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white""). ![]() The intensity of their emotions will make hearts flutter, then ache as evidence mounts that Ellie's and Jeremiah's ""perfect"" love exists in a deeply flawed society. Both voices convincingly describe the couple's love-at-first-sight meeting and the gradual building of their trust. : If You Come Softly (9780399231124) by Woodson, Jacqueline and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. A prologue intimates heartbreak to come thereafter, sequences alternate between Ellie's first-person narration and a third-person telling that focuses on Jeremiah. In this contemporary story about an interracial romance, she seems to slip effortlessly into the skins of both her main characters, Ellie, an upper-middle-class white girl who has just transferred to Percy, an elite New York City prep school, and Jeremiah, one of her few African American classmates, whose parents (a movie producer and a famous writer) have just separated. Once again, Woodson (I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This) handles delicate, even explosive subject matter with exceptional clarity, surety and depth. ![]()
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