Whistling Past the Graveyard

 Book 33 of my 2022 Reading Challenge

Whistling Past the Graveyard 

by Susan Crandall

4 stars

Set in 1963, Whistling Past the Graveyard is the story of a girl named Starla, a woman named Eula, and the way their lives are changed when their paths cross.

It was the kind of story I read with a nervousness about turning the pages because you just know the situation probably isn't going to go well.  When a white girl running away from home is picked up by a black woman in the South in the 1960's, things can go downhill very quickly.  But the pages kept turning and even though I didn't like all of the choices the characters made, I was satisfied with the story and the ending.