The characters are very well drawn. The author did a great work in capturing the rhythm of people speaking. The food! Yum — fabulous descriptions...a terrific job of capturing a time and place — how they lived, died, worked, ate and loved. Jeanne Marie Tokunaga CDA Editor & Publication Manager      History is made of one story at a time. This book is so needed. It captures the memory of a truly significant era in African American history. The memories of this timeframe positions us to understand the whys of then and now. This is a story that speaks for a generation that is slowly losing its voice. This story needed to be told. This story needs to be heard. Ersula Knox Odom Author of "At Sula's Feet"      History is written by the survivors. The survivors in the era recalled in the Short Side of the Triangle are rapidly dying off, and their stories are important to tell. Jill Engledow One of Hawaii's Best Selling Historians