damn, when you have a colorful, complex female in your story, real or fictional, all other characters pale in comparison. I mean no disrespect to any man reading this review, but.
Curtis decided he must give Deza her very own novel: The Mighty Miss Malone. in five pages she captured not only Buddy's heart, but the hearts of both the author and the readers. A 12-year-old girl named Deza Malone shows up for 5 pages of Buddy's story, and she just couldn't help herself. Something very similar happened when Christopher Paul Curtis wrote his Newbery Medal winner, Bud, Not Buddy.
The only solution, ultimately, was to give her a novel of her very own: Terms of Endearment. McMurtry's attention to the extent that he could not stop thinking about her. This friend's mother appears in only two scenes of that novel, but she captured Mr. When Larry McMurtry wrote Moving On, the first novel of what would later became his Houston series, he introduced a “B character,” a friend's mother, named Aurora Greenway, a young widow with a highly comical habit of parking her giant Cadillac yards from the curb so she wouldn't scrape its pretty tires. Had another character narrated the story it likely would have been more depressing, but I don't think it would have been nearly as impactful. The passages where she explains how she can't see herself in stories, where the characters are always described as "pale" and "fair", broke my heart.ĭespite the constant struggles, heartache and pain Deza and her family experience throughout the novel, Deza's voice is bright, hopeful and inspiring. You follow Deza as she becomes aware of her situation as a black girl in a society filled with prejudice and racism. Mostly, I loved seeing the experiences of the Malone's, an African American family affected by the devastation of the Great Depression, through the eyes of such a young and intelligent girl. I loved her love for reading and writing. I loved seeing her interact with the people around her.
I actually said "aI loved how she told stories and spoke with such love and pride about her family.
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