Chicken Dreaming Corn

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Summary: The Deep South as a Multicultural Experience
Review: I just finished reading "Chicken Dreaming Corn" by Roy Hoffman and found it a most satisfying read. As a lifelong resident of the Mobile, Alabama area myself, I have often thought that the multicultural origins of the great port cities of the Southern United States are not well understood by our neighbors in other parts of the country. As I have travelled, I have often had comments on my lack of stereotypical southern accent and have found myself explaining that Mobile is a city with origins and cultural influence from around the world. It continues to be so today. Certainly, as portrayed in this book, we have a microcosm of the American experience. Also, this book tells once again the poignant story of the human experience...the hopes and dreams of a man for his life and for his children's lives weighed down as always by those things which we simply can't change. If you would like to walk in the shoes of a Southern Jewish American dress salesman who lives over his store on a street in a Southern port city with his children and wife in the first half of the twentieth century and whose smoking companions include a Cuban cigar maker, a German furniture salesman,and a Greek baker, then you will enjoy escaping back in time with Roy Hoffman for a few hours. Thanks Mr. Hoffman.