CHILDREN OF STRANGERS

by Lyle Saxon ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 6, 1937

Lyle Saxon is best known for his descriptive regional books, dealing with New Orleans and environs. In this book he has used the delta section and written a story of the mulatto problem, showing the rigid caste system which keeps the whites, the mulattos, the blacks in three distinct compartments. The central figure is a mulatto girl who has a child by a red-headed white man, fugitive from justice, and who sacrifices her life to him, even to the point of ostracizing herself from her own group by breaking the accepted tribal laws. The picture of the people and their background rings true, the author has a keen ear for dialect and a skilled use of it. Not as important a book from interpretation of race as some of Julia Peterkin or Roark Bradford, but a new and inside slant on the problem of mixed races. Regional sale, somewhat -- but of interest to the Peterkin market.

Pub Date: July 6, 1937

ISBN: 0882893971

Page Count: -

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1937

Categories: FICTION