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The author crammed a potentially interesting story into 92 pages. There was no real depth to the characters and no build up to the love story. Save your money on this one!


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Checkered Fences Alma Hudson 9781606931912 Books Reviews

In the late 1970s in California, Diane takes a job as a nanny before heading off for college. The family is a wealthy one, with three children at home who need care while their parents are away. Chad, a son from the wife's previous marriage, tends to be a bit difficult but Diane is able to get him under control. What she doesn't expect is that the oldest son from the husband's previous marriage will show up with his mother one day. There is an instant attraction between them, but in the 1970s that is simply not acceptable - not to her family or his. Diane is from a militant Black family and David's parents are quite upper class.

Although Diane tries to push the attraction for David away from her, he won't let her. He touches her, holds her, even kisses her and finally asks her out on a date. He wants her to go ride his dune buggy with him. Diane agrees and the romance is on. How will they break the news to either of their families? What will the outcome be? Even though David's family has been quite nice to Diane, will they fire her now?

CHECKERED FENCES by Alma Hudson is a compact novel about the racism that has always plagued this country. For those who were not present in the late 70s, this is an educational novel that will open their eyes to the fact that what they see today has not always been. It is well worth reading.

Reviewed by Alice Holman
of The RAWSISTAZ(tm) Reviewers
On a whole I am not crazy about short stories. Always seems something is missing whether it be the beginning, the middle or the end. For this short story, it's missing the middle. The beginning and the end carried out with near perfection. Even with the fact that I felt like I was missing something, this is a cute and enjoyable story; a very quick read that I finished while cooking dinner.

In the beginning, we get the background info on Diane Jones' upbringing, all about her roots, how she comes to meet her future love interest, and about his family life. The end game was a little clean, but worked with the story. What's missing is the middle. We missed the courtship. One minute they are a secret item. The next minute they're making plans for the future and keeping from both their families.

In this debut I can see the potential in author Alma Hudson. I wonder what she would do with a full length novel. With the small number of pages, I realize you can't include everything. Missing were some crucial conflicts, which would have seemed reasonable to be in an interracial book. Overall if you're looking for a quick love story straight to the point this is the book for you. I would like to read a full length novel in the near future from Ms. Hudson

SiStar Tea
ARC Book Club Inc.
3.5 star rating.
Checkered Fences, fiction based upon a true story by Alma Hudson, takes us back to the 1970s. The time is right, but one of the main families in the story probably should have lived sometime about 2000 or later. They are a white family. Diane Jones, the main character, is an 18-year-old African-American honors student, but she was also working as a nanny for Jerry and Ann Shaw... Diane's mother also worked for the Shaws.

Diane had a strong, traditional family. In fact, her father had picked out his wife by seeing her hard at work in the fields, and claimed her as his bride. So, it wasn't a surprise to Diane or her mother when Diane's father started to bring home young, suitable men so that Diane could pick her husband.

Except Diane was not interested in getting married at this time. She wanted to go on to school, Her father made it quite clear that if she got herself pregnant out of marriage, that he would not support her.

Diane looks back on her childhood's happier times and knew she loved her father dearly, but there was never enough money and the children started working early. Christmas came and went, and there were never any presents. The only thing Diane ever received were taunts from neighborhood children about what they got! She also shares the type of discrimination and fear she faced as a young girl at school, only to come home to fear her father when he got drunk and abused her mother. Until she got brave enough to speak back to her father, to prevent his beatings.

So when her father crudely told her about sex and what the boys would want from her, it wasn't surprising that she decided she didn't want anything to do with all of that; so she got as much work as she could find in order to earn a scholarship or money for college.

When her mother told her about the nanny job, it seemed a wonderful opportunity. Not only was she hired immediately, but she was given extra money to take the kids out for lunches and she was given the keys for her to drive one of the family's cars. Diane was amazed how she was being treated, but she knew better, she continued to act professionally and kept a distance from the family as would most employees.

But then their son David came home; Diane and David were immediately attracted to each other. Diane, however, was the one who kept insisting that a relationship was impossible, while David just pursued her...

It was the 1970s, but, to this day, Diane believes that God placed David in her life for a reason, ending her book with 1 Corinthians 13 4-8...Love never fails...

No, this isn't the usual kind of love story; or is it? Two people meet each other and fall in love. Should their race differences have kept them apart? Should their families have disowned them and forced tradition on their children? If these questions are those that you have asked, or if you just enjoy a romantic story, I recommend you check out Checkered Fences by Alma Hudson. There is a main answer provided her in this story. It began a lot earlier than the 1970s though...it began when the book of Corinthians was first written...

G. A. Bixler
The author crammed a potentially interesting story into 92 pages. There was no real depth to the characters and no build up to the love story. Save your money on this one!