The Mighty Miss Malone
The Mighty Miss Malone by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Today is the release date for the new Christopher Paul Curtis novel , The Mighty Miss Malone, and already the reviewers are singing its praises. I am anxiously awaiting my copy so I can re-enter the world so vividly created by Curtis in his Newbery and Coretta Scott King Award-winning book, Bud, Not Buddy. Given today’s economic outlook-you wouldn’t think I would be too excited to immerse myself in the Depression all over again. But Curtis’s characters are so charming, and his voice and humor so warm, that I can’t help myself.
Dezza, a minor character in the Bud, Not Buddy story, is a bright student with a loving family who remains hopeful despite the poverty and racism that surrounds her. But when her father leaves town to find work, and then her mother also loses her job, Dezza and her mother and brother wind up in a Hooverville near Flint, Michigan where hope is a much tougher thing to hold on to. Of course, I haven't read the ending so I can't give it away. But just one look at the gorgeous cover art gives me the impression that somehow Dezza is going to come out on top.
Readers who have been asking Curtis for a female main character will be thrilled.
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