Reviews for Hope Mills

The average rating for Hope Mills based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-03-09 00:00:00 Anthony Mickelbury Not going to finish it. Characters are too sad.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-02-12 00:00:00 Sean Keeney Let me say right up front that this novel is nothing like I thought it would be. I had imagined it to be a story about a black woman and a white woman of roughly the same age who knew each other well and had worked together for years, the black woman (Tweet) and the well-to-do white woman (Cornelia) who employed her. But Ellen Douglas surprised me. She was honest about the repressed rage and necessities of color and class in 1969 Mississippi. This is no feel good story about women who love and help each other. This makes us see the evil and harm of both race and sex relations in not just our past, but what it means even today when we don't listen and at least try to understand. This book gave me something new to think about on every page. I came away seeing just how much black rage has been hard-earned, how much women's rage has been hard-earned, and how much work there is still left to be done. "I can't quit you, baby, but I got to put you down a little while." Willie Dixon, blues singer