Status Updates From Jonah's Gourd Vine

“Funny thing,” he said sitting in Zeke’s kitchen with his wife, “things dat happened long time uhgo used to seem way off, but now it all seems lak it wuz yistiddy. You think it’s dead but de past ain’t stopped breathin’ yet.”

“And Isie, honey, stop cryin’ and lissen tuh me. Don’t you love nobody better’n you do yo’self. Do, you’ll be dying befo’ yo’ time is out.”

rita dove why on earth would you run down the plot beat by beat in the FOREWARD? are you crazy? the publisher should have included this as an afterward or note at the end of the book because retelling the story in the forward is kinda insane..