Cold Sassy Tree was an.... interesting book to say the least. It offers a look into a small southern town through the eyes of a 15 year old teenage boy, whose grandmother passes away. Shortly after, three weeks to be exact, his grandfather marries a young woman named Love Simpson, totally turning the small town of Cold Sassy on its head. As the book continues you are given a lot of different opinions on the big subjects: love, death, and religion. All of them vary, but each has their own good points. One thing that struck me was the death of Uncle Camp. A thoroughly insignificant character, who I couldn't help but extremely dislike. His death makes you actually feel bad that you didn't like the character.
Over-all the book was good. Sure the whole grandfather liking the young lady was creepy. And the whole grandson also liking the young lady was a bit creepy, but you kinda got used to it. This book was different than what I am used to for sure. I had more than a little trouble relating at all to the main character. Oh, and this book is so chock full of southern drawl that I had to read it section by section a bit at a time. Otherwise I would go crazy. Either that or wake up speaking like a southern belle.
But reading this book, as required by my high school, made me think about the pure silliness of some summer reading assignments. I go to an all girls high school, and naturally combined with the small-town and southern atmosphere, the just over-all strangeness of the book itself, and the main characters I couldn't relate at all to it. The next big thing is to go through it and manage to write an essay on the thing.
But thats an entirely different problem. Of all the coming of age books we had to be given, I sort of regret we were given this one. ><
Just my thoughts,
Owl Student
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