FICTION
2011 Gold Medal - Florida Fiction Winner
Florida Publishers Association
2010 FLORIDA BOOK AWARDS
BRONZE AWARD, GENERAL FICTION
MARY JANE RYALS
Cookie & Me
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ISBN: 978-0-9819495-6-7
Official Pub. date: Sept. 5, 2010
$15.00
328 pages, trade paperback
Cover design and art: Carol Lynne Knight
Also available on KINDLE!
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COOKIE & ME gets a full-page feature in FORUM, Florida Humanities Council magazine: HERE!
School Library Journal's rave review: Read it HERE!
Kacee Belcher reviews Cookie & Me for Florida Book Review. Read it here!
Cookie and Me has been nominated for the Capitol Choices 2011 list of Noteworthy Titles for Children and Teens: www.capitolchoices.org
Tallahassee Democrat Sunday Supplement TLH: review and feature story!
Donna Meredith reviews Cookie & Me in Southern Literary Review!
SLR interview with Ryals!
Promotional flyer for Cookie & Me
An accomplished and award-winning poet and fiction writer, Mary Jane Ryals brings us a poignant coming-of-age tale in a time when the issue of civil right was painfully emerging from the shadows and forever changing the lives of cities and towns across the country.
Review by Diane (D. K.) Roberts:
Cookie and Me is fresh and poignant, a beautifully-written story about two young girls, one black, one white, and how they get caught up in an explosive real-life episode during the Civil Rights Movement. Mary Jane Ryals writes like a sassy hybrid of Eudora Welty and Lee Smith. Rayann Woods, her heroine, is as bitingly funny as Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird and as sharply honest as Huck Finn. Ryals knows her North Florida backwoods, her debutantes, her good ole boys and her Jim Crow history. This novel is at once charming and unsparing, hilarious and profound. I hope this isn't the last we hear from Rayann. She's my kind of girl.
Review by Lu Vickers:
Cookie & Me is every bit as evocative of race relations in the South as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Mary Jane Ryals’ Tallahassee, Florida is a kissing cousin of Lee’s Maycomb, Alabama. The story is set in the turbulent sixties and features two main characters who struggle across racial lines to form a friendship that sustains them both. The writing is so visceral, you can almost hear Aretha, feel the humidity and taste the mulberries. I love this book.
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