CBR11 BINGO: History Schmistory (BINGO! Reading the TBR corner to Summer Read corner) Set in the American south in the 1920’s, this novel fits nicely into the “History Schmistory” square. Just a generation into rebuilding after the civil war and shortly after a boll weevil infestation ruins the cotton industry, the inhabitants of a small South Carolina town and it’s outskirts are scrambling to make ends meet. The novel is told through the voices of three very different women: a first generation free black woman, the matriarch […]