It was not very good. I love the idea of the book..a southern girl starting to see the injustice of the treatment of blacks...But it wasn't well executed. She is raised by a horribly racist father and brother in a town where people are beating up blacks and even kill some and the book just starts with bam now she doesn't like it and starts to question things. I'd like to have seen her develop. It felt like the author just didn't want to take the time to develop her. Plus this is the 1960s and sh...

I was not only shocked but pleased the author gave you the option to read the book with the Southern dialect or not. I have found the culture during the Civil Rights era to be interesting and it moves me no matter what the medium is that I am watching or reading. I am learning and the author did a great job to peak my interests throughout the book. The girl, Alison, is a very sheltered soul and only does what she is told and knows no differently when it comes to coloured people. An event will ha...

I could not finish. SO. AWFUL. I cannot believe the high ratings of the book which I borrowed because it was free on the Amazon Lending Library. In a backwards Arkansas (or is it Alabama? I just can't keep you racist A-states straight) town lives an obnoxious young woman dubbed Pixie with budding compassion and awareness of her shitty town's racial politics. Good for her. Too bad she's the most annoying, stupid (literally, so unbelievably stupid) person ever conceived and the writing has all the...

From the first page of this story, I was drawn in completely. Having grown up in Arkansas, I could feel the humidity and almost hear the buzz of the mosquitoes as the magnificent plot unfolded. Young Allison is torn between doing what 1960's southern society dictates is the right thing for a young white woman and doing what her heart tells her is right for her. She struggles with pursuing her passion and becoming independent like her rebel sister or remaining the apple of her dad's eye and doing...

Stunning! Melissa Foster's best work yet. You wouldn't think a story about a small town daddy's girl would be so riveting. On the surface, Alison (Pixie) is a mouse. She's scared to make waves and she's taught to know her place. She's marrying her high school sweetheart and doing everything everyone expects her to.That is, until she finds the body of a black man in the river. Suddenly her eyes are opened to the injustice in her town, where supposedly decent law-abiding citizens beat up, terroriz...

Have No Shame has easily moved its way into my top 10 list of favorite books ever read. This book is such an important dissection of such a tragic time in history. This book takes place in Forrest Town, Arkansas in the late 60's, when segregation "should" have been on its way out, but was still holding its ugly roots in some areas of the south in particular.This unique and lovely story is positioned so well from Alison's point of view -- a simple farm-girl who graduates high school and is about ...

This novel is a powerful look at a small town in Arkansas, set in 1967. I was about the same age as Alison Tillman, the main character, but growing up in New England was almost a world away from her life. Alison is a young woman, fairly sure of the path her life is going to take. She's engaged to Jimmy Lee Carlisle, her boyfriend since she was fifteen. She is having a few niggling doubts about her feelings for Jimmy, but this is the road she has chosen, and her parents are happy. This town is, a...

"Have No Shame" is the first of Melissa Foster's books that I've read and I am so glad to have found her. Her characters draw you in right from the start and you very quickly stand with book in hand stirring a pot at the stove, or do a chore one handed, just because you can't put the book down. I found myself going through the day impatient to know what was going to happen next. The remarkable emotional journey that the main character, Alison takes through this book is one I will not soon forget...

Have No Shame is an amazing tale of a taboo subject for the deep South in the sixties. It follows Alison as she is stuck at home, on a farm, engaged to her high school sweetheart. Her sister lives in New York and is living a new lifestyle. One completely different from how they were brought up, to hate colored people and see them as nothing more than slaves. As Alison struggles with the hatred for treating people differently and striving to still be Daddy's little girl, something happens that sh...

Have No Shame is truly an amazing book by best selling author Melissa Foster. This story set in the deep south in 1967 tells the story of an eighteen year old girl who finds herself having to come full circle with the prejudices of that time. This story took me as a reader into a deep emotional journey of one young woman having to make some tough choices when she befriends a young african american man. As the story unfolds and she starts to discover that her feelings begin to turn romantic, she...