Despite this, the novel will be educational for anyone interested in the difficulties of making an interracial relationship work in the late 1960s South. A few scenes of sexual violence may be realistic, but they diminish the story’s romantic aspects. He allows his peers to use slurs with minimal chastisement and only gets truly upset when people turn on Coralee. Benjamin only comes to think about the issues of race because of his relationship, and doesn’t look beyond it. The relationship has sweet tones, but Benjamin’s lack of growth is difficult to ignore, especially when contrasted with the abuse Coralee faces. Old feelings resurface just as tensions between races peak. Fifteen years later, quarterback Benjamin can’t pass his college English class, and Coralee is assigned to tutor him.

In the nondescript Southern town of Plumville, Ga., Coralee Simmons, the daughter of black housekeeper Patty, and Benjamin Drummond, the son of Patty’s white employer, were childhood friends before Ben’s racist mother insisted that they be kept apart lest their friendship turn into love. The reunion forces the pair and those around them to examine the consequences of following the status quo versus following their hearts.In this dramatic novel, Friersos ( The Sight: City of Sin) explores the pleasures and perils of interracial romance in 1968. However, fifteen years later during the turbulent 1960s, Benjamin and Coralee are reunited, and despite their upbringing, neither are able to deny what they had in their innocent youth, nor suppress the desire to rekindle it-maybe even into something more. Such is the case for Benjamin Drummond and Coralee Simmons, two best friends separated during childhood because Benjamin is white, Coralee is black, and relationships between the two races are unspoken in its taboo. Living in the small, southern town of Plumville is effortless, sea. Frierson and a 2016 LIBRARY JOURNAL Self-E selection. Read 130 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. You're given them from birth, and anything that could possibly make you break them is removed from your life-even if it's your best friend. Being Plumville is the award-winning debut novel of USA TODAY best-selling author Savannah J. Living in the small, southern town of Plumville is effortless, seamless, and safe, if you follow the rules.

Being plumville by savannah j frierson