'“Wintner ends up nicely illuminating a corner of a turbulent era.” —Publishers Weekly   “It rings with authenticity—and not just with language. Wintner’s insights speak of intimate, ingrained, firsthand knowledge of Southern culture with its almost incomprehensible (certainly peculiar) racial dynamics and comedy of manners that overarch all behavior.” —Dr. Gloria Randle, former professor of African-American Literature at Loyola and Michigan State Universities  '