The Learning Tree

A fine novel.THE BOSTON HERALDPhotographer writer and composer Gordon Parks has written a moving truetolife novel of growing up as a black man in this country i... » 

A fine novel.THE BOSTON HERALDPhotographer writer and composer Gordon Parks has written a moving truetolife novel of growing up as a black man in this country in this century. Hailedby critics and readers alike THE LEARNING TREE tells the extraordinary journeyof a family as they struggle to understand the world around them and leavetheir mark a world that is better for their having been in it. «