It vividly re-creates Mississippi in the 1960s and '70s, with bitter, brutal racism in the rural areas yet tentative steps toward change and acceptance in Jackson its portrait of the Mississippi cultural underground is detailed and, so my own limited acquaintance with the phenomenon tells me, accurate it is candid about Sessums' awakening to his homosexuality and his uncertain attempts to practice it in a place where it was anathema.īut it also is filled, just about to overflowing, with dialogue. Is Kevin Sessums' attempt to come to terms with this complex and burdensome legacy. Burdensome legacy, troublesome dialogue Mississippi Sissy As adults, they have thrived - Karole is deeply involved with the arts in Mississippi, Kim is a physician as well as an artist, and Kevin writes celebrity profiles for Vanity Fair and other glossy magazines - but the memory of being what the Mississippi newspapers called "the Sessums Orphans" has stayed with them. They were given plenty of attention and love, but it was never the same as having their own parents, and it had lasting effects on all three of them.
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