Sourland

There's a tremendous integrity about this short novel, embodied in the main character: Moses Waters is a negro teacher full of wisdom, who first appears like Father Time scything the grass in a graveyard and has the moral stature of a biblical hero. He helps the Stone children and their father come to terms with bereavement and remains magnificently above local white prejudice and antagonism towards blacks. This is a crafted and meaningful book from which sensitive readers could learn much that's worthy and true.