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    The Air Between Us: A Novel
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    The Air Between Us: A Novel

    By Deborah Johnson

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    Revere, Mississippi, with its population of "20,000 and sinking" is not unlike most Southern towns in the sixties. Black people live on one side of town and whites live on the other. The two rarely mix, or so everyone believes. But the truth is brought to the forefront when Billy Ray Puckett, a white man wounded while hunting, shows up at the segregated Doctors Hospital. No one thinks much of his death—just a typical hunting accident—until the sheriff orders an investigation.

    Suddenly the connections between whites and blacks are revealed to be deeper than anyone expected, which makes the town's struggle with integration that much more complicated. Dr. Cooper Connelly, who hails from a prominent white family, takes an unexpectedly progressive view toward school integration; while the esteemed Dr. Reese Jackson, so prominent he has garnered an Ebony profile, tries to stay above the fray. With fully realized characters and a mystery that will keep readers turning pages until the end, The Air Between Us is a heart-filled, endearing tale.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061850226
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    Deborah Johnson

    DEBORAH JOHNSON, M.A., creator of Hero Mountain® and former president of Los Angeles National Speakers Association, is an international award-winning music artist, author, speaker and National Media Commentator. She also hosts the popular podcast "Women at Halftime" and is the creator of "Hero Mountain Summit." Deborah provides tools to create your ideal lifestyle and work at mid-career or during the halftime of life, getting unstuck. You can live your second half fulfilled, focused and free! Up for multiple GRAMMY Awards and spending over 20 years in the entertainment industry, she's an expert on how to constantly reinvent yourself in a gig-economy. She is also the recipient of the Women's Economic Forum Exceptional Women of Excellence Award. Deborah is the author of multiple books, over twenty albums and musicals and speaks and performs in both live and virtual events.

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    • 4/5
      As I often end up doing, I read this book after the the author's second book set in the small town of Revere, Mississippi. That one, The Secret of Magic, was set in the 1940s, just after World War II ended and revolved around the murder of a returning black war hero. This book, set in the mid-1960s, is focused on the federally mandated school desegregation's affect on the town, while also serving up a mystery involving a poor white man's death due to a supposedly self-inflicted gunshot wound. The blurb on the back of the trade paperback makes it seem to be more a mystery tale than it truly is. This is as much a story about a town in the deep South as the author's second one is, with fully realized characters possessing complexity and contradictions. In a town where whites and blacks don't mingle and everyone seems to know everyone's business, there are plenty of secrets that, if revealed, could change everything.There is a vague connection to the second book, but otherwise, each stands on its own. I enjoyed spending time with these characters and hope Johnson keeps writing about the generations of people who call Revere their home.
    • 2/5
      Didn't really like it.Our story follows two doctors (one white, one black) as they are caught up in the whirlwind of the possibility desegregation in 1960s Mississippi.This is labeled as a mystery and to be quite honest going into it I thought the mystery was the death at the beginning of the book but after having read it, I can't say that that was the focus of the mystery itself.Following my main complaint of the storyline not being so clear I would have to say another problem I found with this book was the fact that the author went way too far into developing her characters and in doing so ended up getting away from the main storyline to the point where it was confusing for the reader. I mean she describes her characters down to what they actually plant in their gardens. It's a little more than overkill. Going back to the story itself, I feel like the roundabout way that the story was written made it very poorly executed. Which is quite sad because I think this would be a great story if written differently.I didn't really like this book but I didn't hate it at the same time. This book frustrated me more than anything. The author tries to build up the suspense in certain parts and she just fails utterly.I honestly can't say that I can recommend this book to people who like mystery books because I am still wondering myself what exactly the mystery was.
    • 2/5
      Didn't really like it.Our story follows two doctors (one white, one black) as they are caught up in the whirlwind of the possibility desegregation in 1960s Mississippi.This is labeled as a mystery and to be quite honest going into it I thought the mystery was the death at the beginning of the book but after having read it, I can't say that that was the focus of the mystery itself.Following my main complaint of the storyline not being so clear I would have to say another problem I found with this book was the fact that the author went way too far into developing her characters and in doing so ended up getting away from the main storyline to the point where it was confusing for the reader. I mean she describes her characters down to what they actually plant in their gardens. It's a little more than overkill. Going back to the story itself, I feel like the roundabout way that the story was written made it very poorly executed. Which is quite sad because I think this would be a great story if written differently.I didn't really like this book but I didn't hate it at the same time. This book frustrated me more than anything. The author tries to build up the suspense in certain parts and she just fails utterly.I honestly can't say that I can recommend this book to people who like mystery books because I am still wondering myself what exactly the mystery was.