William Yeats said it best when, with a phrase made famous by Chinua Achebe several decades later, he described the nature of the world as it is: Things fall apart, wrote Yeats. The centre cannot hold. A Look Back Growing up, few books had a more lasting impact on my life than those of Mildred D. Taylor. Taylor’s books (a 5-part historical fiction series for children) cover the lives of the Logans, an African-American family living in Mississippi around the time of the Great Depression. In the series’ best-known book, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, we’re introduced to a … Read more »
