Guardian Angel 911

by J.T. Glisson

Not unlike all our lives this book is a series of stories, separate but interconnected. They are all true with the exception of some literary license where details were lost in the telling and retelling. Guardian Angel 911 will provide an insight to the sojourn of a native, born in the isolated hammocks and swamps of the real Florida, before the population exploded in the third quarter of the twentieth century.

165 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Betsy Brown]

After visiting Cross Creek, Florida, home of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, I wanted to find out more. J.T. Glisson wrote his own version of Cross Creek that fills in a lot of spaces from Rawlings book. Growing up as her neighbor, he met many of her socialite gang, and had a little window to the world outside Cross Creek. This story tells the tales of a young boy, with health issues, growing up in the back country of the Ocala/Gainesville area. He paints amazing word pictures of the environment and keeps your chuckling at the anecdotes of being a Florida swamp country boy. A fun read. Now, I want to return to Cross Creek to see it from his eyes.

[Teri · Rating 3 out of 5]

I put this one down several times out of boredom, however it did keep my attention quite a bit. Just towards the end though, I found myself putting it down much more often. I couldn't make it through the ending.