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Between Castes
Gruening, Martha | August 21, 1937 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Children of Strangers," by Lyle Saxon. Because of the charm of his writing and the real interest of his local color, the essential conventionality of Saxon's novel of life in the deep South is not immediately apparent. It deals with a special group, the "free mulatto" descendants of the Vidal brothers, who around 1760 came from France and took up a large grant of land on the Red River. By the time the story opens, in 1905, they have become very poor, "their pride, their land, and their few possessions" being all they have left. Little by little the land and possessions pass into the hands of white people.

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CHILDREN of Strangers (Book); BOOKS; SAXON, Lyle; STRANGERS; WRITING; SOCIAL groups; WHITES
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