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Luke Boyd's first collection of 25 short reviews reflects the folk laughter and local color that are hallmarks of Southern writing. His storytelling is part remembrance of your culture that is gradually fading, part recollection of lessons learned over an eternity. His matter-of-fact style and clearness of aspect are lower from the fabric of the dental tradition that flourished in the rural South of his upbringing. He deftly places the amusing story of string saw-toting Phinos Ledbetter and his botched baptism at the East Fork Southern Missionary Baptist Chapel alongside the powerful storage area associated with an uncle known by the poor tenant farmhands he dished up only as "The Jesus Doctor". These remarkable personas are depicted so evidently and accurately as to leave the listener guessing which reviews are truth and that happen to be imagined. And if the instructors in these stories are smudged with the dirt of chalk or caked with the mud of the field, their lives and lessons are faithfully registered here in logical prose that evokes a special time and place.
