The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart

Although the book appears on many young adult lists, Told in simple, straightforward style, Dixie's voice isīelievable throughout, and her resilience in the face of calamity keeps The path to rescue, forcing her to a higher level of self-awareness and Victimized by a relative outside her nuclear family, her reputation bars Well-earned reputation as a liar stems more from her need to fabricate aīearable family image than from genuine deceitfulness, yet when Suffer even as they inflict suffering on others. One-dimensional villains, or beyond the reach sympathy. Neither Dixie's mother, older brother, nor father are Saved from being a mere parade of lament by well-developed characters. In a family of four that exhibits every form dysfunction imaginable.Īlthough the abuse is piled on a little too thick, the book is

The story is told in diary form by eleven-year-old Dixie, youngest Social programs and each unhappy family is left to be unhappy in its own South than new, a place where stretches of poverty remain untouched by Set in small-town Alabama in 1969, Dixie's reality is more Old The Education of Dixie Dupree is a compelling tale of survival,Ĭonvincingly driven by the voice of Dixie herself.įans of southern fiction take note: The Education of Dixie Dupreeīy Donna Everhart combines atmosphere, skilled narrative, and a strongĬentral character to deliver a memorable - if often harrowing. Retrieved from ĭonna Everhart and Amy Melissa Bentley (narrator) THE EDUCATION OFĭIXIE DUPREE Tantor Audio (Fiction: General) 29.99 ISBN: 9781515964698 APA style: The Education of Dixie Dupree.The Education of Dixie Dupree.' Retrieved from MLA style: 'The Education of Dixie Dupree.' The Free Library.

The Education of Dixie Dupree by Donna Everhart